Corp said:
I understand why they've made him the way he is now, but I think a good leader would be effective without compromising morals he once held dear.
We have had this conversation before mister.
He only compromised those once, and it was to get rid of the purifiers, who have shown that they will stop at nothing to kill those mutants that are left. They killed a bus load of children to forward their "cleansing" and they have shown no stopping or hesitation.
His reason for sicking X-Force after Cable was never completely clear, but at that moment he thought that Cable was responsible for a whole towns death and destruction, so he didn't know what to expect. On top of that, he knew Wolverine would be able to judge the situation properly.
I think so far, the only times he has chosen those routes, he was justified.
The only time I had an issue was in Young X-Men, sending the kids to kill the ex New Mutants, and it turned out that it wasn't him.
I don't think Cyclops has completely abbandoned his moral center, but he has shifted it a bit. Like he said in Astonishing: He won't shoot first and ask questions later, and he will try to find a way to solve a problem without killing, which is why he didn't blast the fire guy away. But he won't lose sleep if a death of a killer or murderer happens, since that stuff happens in a war...and the mutants right now are slap dash in the middle of a war of survival.
/End of opinion
