Re: Well, I Saw Superman Returns


The Watch Dog wrote:
barnett@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
The Watch Dog wrote:
barnett@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Ophidian wrote:
barnett@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Sounds more like the man outside the window to me. You know old TV
shows or movies shows a depressed guy outside in the rain watching a
happy family and we're supposed to feel for him on how he doesn't have
that or he lost it. I guess people aren't innocent enough for that
anymore.

There's some degree of difference between glancing in the window
and doing the moral equivalent of opening the curtain for a better
view or planting a hidden camera.

Except for SUperman there isn't, that's how naturally his powers come
to him. It's that easy.


You're absolutely right. His use of his x-ray vision powers like this
is basically automatic, not a choice with any moral implications.
That's why he's constantly looking at women naked under their clothes,
and he can tell you whether Perry White was circumsized or not. It's
"natural."

Except that there's nothing making that man look through that window.
He can turn his head away and walk on. Both are invading privacy. For
the first man it is a sign of longing and sadness. For Superman it's
peeping.


Actually, I disagree with you 100%. A person sitting in front of a
window that is exposed to the public lacks what the law calls "an
expectation of privacy." A person sitting in her house behind an opaque
wall has an expectation of privacy. This expectation can be thwarted -
in the real world, with hidden cameras, sometimes telescopic lenses,
and the like; or in the DCU, with Superman's x-ray vision. In EITHER
case it goes beyond glancing through the window at the house next
store, and constitutes an invasion of privacy.

A man sneaking up to a window that can't be well-seen from the street
and looking in is also invading privacy. People like that get arrested.
There's nothing "innocent" about it.

So you've never seen those old movies like the one's I'm talking about.
It was kind of parodied in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, when Spike is
chipped and he see's a bunch of vampires feeding on a family, but can't
join in?

People are asking for him to express emotions, while at the same time
wanting him to supress them.


People are putting words in other people's mouths, while at the same
time criticizing them for having said those words.

Not really. There's been plenty of complaints about him not expressing
himself, telling Lois he loves her et. al yet Superman using his X-Ray
vision to watch them is very expressive.


JLB

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