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Originally Posted by BWTraveller
I'd have to partly differ. I got the feeling it was sort of reflexive. He's used to being a hero, both in title and in the behavior of putting himself out there to help others, so when he sees someone in trouble he jumps in automatically. And in any case this is sort of a version of the Trolley problem. You know, the ethical question that has a group of people tied to the tracks with a trolley approaching and the only way to save them is to turn the trolley onto another track where another person's tied up. You can declare "they're hypocrites" or "they're horrible people" or any number of things, but really there's no good answer to the situation. They had two options, either let their families and countless people back home die or set up an entirely different set of people to die. Either way they have blood on their hands. Would they be any less hypocritical if they tried to save people while refusing to save their world? If you're trapped in a position where any action you do or don't take will result in death, does that make it hypocritical for you to say you don't like that people are going to have to die? Or does it just make you a sad person faced with a tragic situation?
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The fact still remains that they themselves are hiding from a plain and simple fact. Their actions are going to make them mass murders. They may have good intentions and reasons for it but they are lying to themselves and others by not embracing the fact that they are telling this world and everyone in it to die so that their's can live. They can be sorry about it all they want but spending time and energy to "protect" their victims from their own attacks is just escapism to protect their own feelings. You have to admit that their behavior is contradictory.
They even failed to make more than a token effort at the other heroes, clearly much easier prey and would be enough to utterly doom this world according to Fitoria.