What you took away form the ending of Watchmen?

[HotToyzJoker]

Let me start this one off... Its sad but what I got out of it as a whole is that humanity has no hope at all whats so ever... Look we had to create a giant squid to avert nuclear war...

 

[BlueLightning]

That´s a maquiavelican way of thinking. It has hope because in the real world, people are born with the capacity of good, not evil. The way the person grows, the way that people will act. But in the Watchmen universe is hard to tell.

 

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What you took away form the ending of Watchmen?

..that you can find real gems in the crank file

 

[Silvermoth]

I read the book in a post 9/11 world and to me the ending was a reminder that people generally want to help and that war is not the natural state of man. Maybe thats a somewhat naive way of looking at things but what I mean is in a disaster people are usually more unified than ever before. Just look at the recent Australian bushfires.

 

[Camisado]

I got that there was still hope for humanity....

 

[zmystico]

Man's natural inclination is to sin, there is hope, but it does not rely in us. The only reason the world united was because "the world" was faced with annihilation.

 

[CaptainGenerica]

That humanity is redeemable, and that if you have the means and ability to make the world a better place, you are morally obligated to do it.

 

[Dark Phantom]

I saw the ending in a more cynical view. I found that humanity can be easily manipulated into unifying for peace and war caused by disasters. Now living in a post 9/11, dr.manhattan's words have never been more true "nothing ever ends". After 9/11 the U.S briefly united for a common cause, but my dad told me "Just wait. In 10 years this will all be forgotten. Then we'll be attacked again."