Reflections on The SHRA, The Civil War thread and other things

[Fantasyartist]

Now that the SHRA has been signed into law and the battle lines are drawn amongst heroes(heroines?), it's worth noting the rationale for it. Tony Stark may say that it will weed out "the kids, amateurs and psychopaths" from the super hero community but this is a specious argument( as for "kids and amateurs"-what does Stark think the Avengers,X-Men and FF were in the beginning- the Torch alone was just in high school and Spider_Man was 15 when he received his powers. Whilst the "psychopaths" include no more than Wolverine or The Punisher). The SHRA is no more than a sledgehammer to crack a walnut.
Firstly who will the "registered heroes" be accountable to-apart from Nick Fury, SHIELD Director-whose ultimate boss is the President? Can this "group of superhumanly powered peacekeepers" violate the sovereignty of other nations( that is enter their territory withoutr permission). And what about security considerations( If the Mafia and the KGB in real life can penetrate the Witness Protection Programme and the CIA/FBI respectively, then it's hard to believe that agents of Dr Doom/The Red Skull/Magneto (or any other major super villain whose resources exceed anything avialable to organised crime or Soviet intelligence) cannot find out the identity of any hero.
There is also another issue: the Avengers/FF/X-Men came together not because the Feds asked them to do so but because they WANTED to do so. Registration ultimately means control and supervision( Whatever happened to "get government off the backs off the people", a popular Reagan era conservative slogan?)

Terry

 

[gildea]

Now that the SHRA has been signed into law and the battle lines are drawn amongst heroes(heroines?), it's worth noting the rationale for it. Tony Stark may say that it will weed out "the kids, amateurs and psychopaths" from the super hero community but this is a specious argument( as for "kids and amateurs"-what does Stark think the Avengers,X-Men and FF were in the beginning- the Torch alone was just in high school and Spider_Man was 15 when he received his powers. Whilst the "psychopaths" include no more than Wolverine or The Punisher). The SHRA is no more than a sledgehammer to crack a walnut.

I disagree that it's a specious argument.
Its unfair to compare the begininngs of the marvel universe with its current form in the sense that you are. Simply put there are more heroes than before and more still tend to spring up. When the avengers, x-men and ff where starting the MU hadn't concieved of superbeings on that scale as such there would be no need to put the structure in place. Thinking about it logically (which is dangerouse as you then come to fiddling with genre conventions) there really should have been this kind of move on the governements part years ago when they realised there would have been more on the way.

Registration ultimately means control and supervision( Whatever happened to "get government off the backs off the people", a popular Reagan era conservative slogan?)

I SERIOUSLY doubt reagan at the height of the cold war would have let people with the power to level cities walk freely over US soil. That slogan doesn't read "get goverment off the backs of the SUPER people"

 

[Harlekin]

And this couldn't go into the Civil War thread, why?

 

[Doc Destruction]

And this couldn't go into the Civil War thread, why?

I was thinking the very same thing.

 

[gildea]

me too.

 

[Darthphere]

Me three.

 

[Tropico]

Me fourth.