By: A Very Serious Gotham Pundit
We as Gotham voters have a choice to make in this next election about law and order. Because it’s not who we are underneath, but what we vote for that defines us. The only sensible way to live in this world is without rules. The Gotham morals, the penal code – it’s a bad joke. But without Batman, crime has no punchline. Gotham needs to introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos.
Because here in Gotham we are all too familiar with the typical script. The Joker hatches some fiendish super illegal plan to rob a bank, blow up a hospital, or release a bioweapon. Standard criminal stuff. The overwhelmed police virtue signal for a vigilante extra constitutional crime fighter in the form of the mysterious Batman. Batman saves the day and the Joker is locked away in Arkham Asylum before escaping. And the cycle continues.
The Batman and Commissioner Gordon must stop holding the Joker accountable and bring him to justice. If we prevent the Joker from doing crime it will just make him want to do more crime. So we should just ignore his decades of crimes instead because if he gets mad about indictments he might do more crimes.
Think about it like this. If you were a wounded gazelle would you run away from a hungry lion eyeing you as her dinner? No. Because if you tried to run away that might anger the lion and then it would eat you. You just stand there. It’s no wonder that in Savannah elections you see so many gazelles voting for lions.
Or think back to school. We all dealt with bullies at some point. The teacher would just let the bully do whatever they want and never discipline him/her right? And why? Because if the bully was punished for his/her transgression that might upset the bully who would then want to bully again.
The same is true here.
Criminals don’t follow the law so we shouldn’t really have criminal laws anyway. I just don’t see how its sustainable to indict habitual thugs for any of a number of serious felonies endangering the security, livelihood, and integrity of our system of government.
If we try to stop the Joker it will just make him want to do more crimes.
The Joker has spawned a whole network of criminals looting and terrorizing Gotham. Think of the Penguin, the Riddler, Poison Ivy, Bane, Scarecrow. It seems as though everyone connected to the Joker is a criminal or will be soon enough. Like if everything King Midas touched turned into felons.
What would you have the Gotham police do? Start arresting serial villains for committing heinous criminal acts now? Where does it stop? Should every criminal violation be subject to prosecution? Do we really want to slide down that slippery slope? We are setting a terrible precedent here if we insist the plain and unambiguous language of the Gotham penal code should be enforced.
Instead, we must do what prosecutors have always done with the Joker. Ignore him, and hope he loses interest in his lifetime of crime and mayhem.
