| | How about this: "With great weakness comes greater responsibility."
Max wrote:
"With great power comes great responsibility", but he has a point there (however weired it is portrayed in the movies), for when you are strong you have to think about what you are doing with your strength. If you go around bullying people, you are abusing your powers and you haven't passed the moral test to use those powers (and most likely, they will be taken from you with your freedom)...So, there is responsibilty coming with your powers, but the responsibilty is only to yourself and not to a collective, like a city, other people or a nation."
Anyone who believes "with great power comes great responsibility" in regards to the powerful is looking to control that person's power. It is not abuse they are worried about as much as it is harnessing that power to their own ends.
In the comics, that distinction has been lost (hell, even in the second movie, you can see it happening). Peter Parker has to forego a social life, his girlfriend, put his family and friends at risk, suffers in his studies and career, because of his "responsibility" to the greater good. Every time he tries to focus on HIS life and needs, he is punished by fate (usually in the form of someone wearing green and purple, take your pic). It's all about guilt and atoning for his uncle's death. It's his responsibility to save the world.
As a tragedy, this is appropriate. As an uplifting hero story, it's socialism, plain and simple.
What if Spiderman DID quit, or, worse, got offed by a villain?
Who would take care of New York? Who would save the day? There is a police force for that, if 9/11 shows up in time. Otherwise, the people need to stand up for themselves. In the old west, you didn't have superheroes, the colonial Americans didn't have superheroes, they had self-defense and self-reliance. Notice that Superheroes didn't take off in this country until AFTER the Great Depression, social security, and the New Deal. Americans were told they were not independent but victims, and needed to be taken care of. (Setting the stage for SHAM...). So we get a strange visitor from another planet...is it a bird, is it a plane, is it Jesus? No, it's Superman, or Mighty Mouse, or Captain America! (Ok, Cap was cool, cause he was one of us, just enhanced, and fought for freedom...). But the others, with exceptions, were NOT us, not merely us at our potential, but BEYOND us, because we were too weak to save ourselves.
That's why the "Allies" didn't have or need superheroes, they had Americans to save the day. Who would America turn to?. And what if a great power DID abuse such power and turn to bullying? That's why one can't rely on superhero outsiders. What if America did NOT get into WWII? Not abusing its power, it simply did not get involved. Do they still have a responsibility to France, or any other nation (or individuals) who appeased Hitler? The opposite is true: With great weakness comes great responsibility, because the weak have to work HARDER to protect that self.
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