Chapter 3449 The Son of Midnight (Forty-eight)

Seeing Danny's mood slowly calmed down, Schiller went to get a paper cup, poured himself a glass of water, and slowly began to tell:

"Since it's just a normal chat, I won't talk about those difficult terms. To answer your questions, we must start with the essence of superheroes."

"There has never been a perfect system for human society. The way in which human race exists is doomed to be unable to design and implement a perfect system. If this is regarded as a known condition, the birth of a hero is almost inevitable."

"Since the system is not perfect, there will definitely be people who check for the system and make up for the gaps. They are promoting the progress of the times or society. Because they bring a better life to ordinary people, ordinary people call them heroes."

"You can understand superheroes as superpowered heroes. They are a branch of heroes. Since they are branches, they are very similar to other existences in this group. They are complementary to some imperfect system."

"So what's the difference between them and traditional heroes? Of course, they have superpowers. That is to say, superheroes are not an independent word, but a combination word. They have superpowers, people who check for imperfect systems and make up for the missing."

"And the other question is: What is the difference between a super criminal and a superhero?"

"Obviously, super criminals violate the law. Most super criminals significantly endanger the lives and safety of others. They are evil from a legal and moral perspective. They are the group of people who destroy the system. So even if they have superpowers, they are super criminals, not superheroes."

"But if a person has superpowers, but has not committed crimes, but has not done anything to make society better, can he be called a superhero?"

"I think it's not possible. The threshold for heroes is not that low. We can only say that such people are not super criminals, but we can't say that they are superheroes."

"In this way, whether or not you use your superpowers to make society better is the standard of superheroes, and it is the only standard."

“Whether this superhero is staying in the lab to promote technological progress or catching thieves on the street, they can be called superheroes because they have made society better.”

Danny nodded. Schiller said it was easy to understand and he could understand it. But Schiller's question became a bit complicated next.

"So what if the behavior of a superhero endangers the society?"

"Then he is not a superhero," said Danny. "Not only did he not make society better, he also endangered others. He should be a super criminal."

"Yes, that's it. People who make this society better are heroes. If you want to be a hero, you have to make this society better. You agree with this, right?"

Danny nodded.

"So what if a superhero wants to make society better but just the wrong method and endanger the society?"

Danny began to think, and after a while he spoke, "Maybe his idea is good, but if it harms others, it may not be called a hero. At least not for the person who was suffering."

"That's right. Although his ideas are good, his behavior has endangered society, so he can't be considered a superhero. Then is he considered a super criminal?"

Danny was silent for a while and said, "I think it might be. After all, his behavior is indeed wrong."

"So if this superhero has been saving people before and has saved many people, but this time there is a problem, can we deal with him according to the method of dealing with super criminals?"

Danny shook his head and said, "No. This is too ruthless. It is also true that he saved many people. He cannot treat him as a vicious criminal because of this mistake."

Then he fell into thinking, and after a while he spoke, "Are you trying to tell me that the reason why superheroes act so wild and do not take the most efficient approach is to avoid becoming criminals?"

"But the methods I mentioned before are not considered crimes, right? Iron Man can control his robot, and Captain America's influence is not something that can be avoided. Is it better to sacrifice efficiency and take everything slowly just to avoid making mistakes?"

Schiller chuckled softly and said, "Don't be anxious, listen to me.

"You may think that the harms in the examples I have given refer to the fact that superpowers have lost control and killed many people, or rushing around to disrupt the order of social life. But no, these are just the most obvious dangers."

Danny turned to look at him.

"The danger that real superheroes should try their best to avoid is destabilization." Schiller's hands overlapped together, rubbing the joints of the other with one hand.

"The right to life and health is the natural first right of mankind. In layman's terms, everyone has the right to live healthy. So what is the second right? I think it is the right to develop one's own right."

"If you want to develop yourself, you must have the conditions to develop yourself. For example, receiving education, exercising your body, enriching your horizons, and increasing your experiences are all conditions that allow a person to develop."

"Society must first ensure the realization of human first rights, that is, to enable everyone to survive. On this basis, we must strive to ensure the realization of second rights, that is, to allow people to have the above conditions to develop themselves."

"If you want to have these conditions, society must remain stable. Schools can carry out normal teaching activities every day, shops can open doors every day, so that people can buy what they want, and transportation facilities can operate normally every day, so that people can go to places they want to go."

"If there is no stability, schools will be closed for seven days a week, shops will not dare to open doors, and transportation facilities will be completely paralyzed, so everyone will have to hide at home. Their psychological and physical conditions may also stagnate, which means they have lost the right to develop themselves."

"So what could lead to loss of stability? Of course, the most likely is large-scale thermal weapons wars, followed by terrorist riots, rampant plagues, bad controls, etc."

"If these big things are not there, then some small things may also lead to local chaos. And because it is not a big thing, people are neglecting to prevent and do not care, it is easier to repeat it again and again, resulting in repeated breakdown of stability and society is still in a state of long-term disorder."

"Schools may not be closed permanently, but they will be suspended at least four or five times a month. The shops are not closed all the time, they may be closed for two or three days a week. The transportation facilities are better and worse every day, and you can still travel if you have good luck."

"It seems that there is no problem, but in fact, this is also a serious restriction on humanity's own right to development. Not to mention, some places in this world are like this, while others are good."

"Ultimately, people in some places are severely restricted in their own development, while others can develop almost infinitely. Society is torn into two halves, and half of them, even most of them, have to endure injustice forever."

"Superpower itself can easily cause such small things. Campus tragedies, commercial street attacks, traffic destruction and other cases caused by the loss of control of superpower are common. Considering the consequences I just mentioned, this must be taken seriously."

"Superheroes need to check for shortcomings and fill in the gaps in this society, rather than becoming the person who digs the holes themselves. A superhero may not be much, and ten may not bring much harm. But I know that there are more than two thousand superheroes in New York. If one person does a small thing, the harm caused by a hot war breaking out in New York is no less than a hot war."

"To sum up, the efficiency of superheroes is not limited by their abilities or mentality, but by the society's requirements for stability. The upper limit of their efficiency is not themselves, but the limit of ordinary people."

"But the limits of ordinary people are much lower than you think. To be precise, they are quite fragile."

"It's not just a knife hitting them and a bullet hitting them to hurt them. It's just physical damage. They can't bear it, and there's mental damage."

"The shock caused by sudden accidents, or the sudden break of life habits that have been maintained for many years, is a kind of mental harm to them. It may make them anxious, depressed, or even fall into mental difficulties that cannot be extricated, unable to integrate into normal social life, and limit their own development."

"Superheroes must do their best to avoid mental damage, as they are equally painful."

“Superheroes should do this even if not for the purpose of protecting their right to develop, because 'allowing weakness' is at the heart of humanistic care.”

"If a group does not give enough care and protection to the weak, but ignores or eliminates them, then no one will be willing to stand up and sacrifice their own interests to promote the development of society and the times. There will be no more heroes, only speculators and criminals left, and society will hardly move forward."

"So let's talk about the methods you're talking about. Iron Man can send robots into the Bronx with great fanfare, but what do you think of the Bronx residents?"

"Is Iron Man coming to invade us? Are robots going to rebel against humans? Who are the weapons they carry to deal with? Will they beat me to death just because I went out to throw out the garbage today?"

"It sounds ridiculous, but you can't avoid ordinary people thinking so. Or, what are the reliable reasons for you to convince others not to think so?"

"The same is true for Captain America. Everyone knows how much influence he has. As soon as he holds a press conference, people will guess: Is Hydra going to make a comeback again? Is their headquarters hidden in the Bronx? Then will I encounter terrorists when I go out to buy things?"

"People will feel panic because of this. They will be worried and afraid, will not sleep well, will be trembling when going out, and will have such thoughts from time to time when studying and working, and will be completely unable to concentrate. Isn't this harmful to them?"

"My years of professional experience in psychologists tells me that there are few great disasters in ordinary people's lives. Most of the things that linger in their minds and entangled in their souls make them sit in front of me with a look of pain come from these small hardships."

Danny looked at Shiller in a daze. These words seemed like a wisp of wind that came into the gap when the window was not closed. The narrower the passage made it more intense. After rushing into the brain from the ear canal, it became deafening and dizzy.

Schiller's words and expression made him suddenly feel like something was suddenly captured by his soul and sent into the sky. Standing in such a detached perspective as a god, he looked down at all living beings.

When standing on a high place, all the things he thought he could not get became blurred. But there were too many things he could see here, which made him discover the rules of the operation of those subtle parts that he could not see normally, and gave birth to a vast compassion that he had never seen before.

Finally, he heard Schiller sigh as if nothing had happened:
Chapter completed!