A Disturbing Trend

Tonight, I've been thinking about my hands-down most favorite scene from Babylon 5. I'm not going to go into specifics about that scene because B5 is the one canon I absolutely will not spoil -- even if it is decades later. Suffice it to say that the moment in question happens late in season five and involves one character forgiving another for the latter's substantial transgressions against the former. Folks who have seen B5: you know which scene I mean, yes?

(And by the way, if you didn't hear that last tag question in a particular accent, I question your commitment to B5 fandom.)

I've been reflecting on that one fantastic show of grace because, quite frankly, I don't know how many of today's so-called creatives are capable of pulling off something similar. The SJW mind virus, you see, utterly wipes out a writer's ability to tackle themes of redemption and absolution. Instead, feral vengeance is the order of the day. "If you've been wronged," sayeth the radicals, "any response - no matter how nakedly violent or otherwise immoral - is permitted."

Take Iron Man 2020, for example. In this poor excuse for an Iron Man event, an AI version of Tony Stark seems to sanction his AI foot soldiers' needless endangerment of human beings for the sake of his robot rebellion. (As of the second issue, at least. I haven't had a chance to read the third.) To be sure, I happen to agree that sapient artificial beings should be granted the same status as any man of flesh. Still, I believe it's the opposite of heroic to show such a casual disregard for individuals who happen to fall on the wrong side of the mechanical/biological divide.

The SJW's at Marvel, though, apparently see no problem with a construct of Tony - one who possesses the original man's memories, mind you - acting in this way. This is because in their minds, AI Tony is an avatar for the powerless -- and the powerless need not obey rules of combat nor show any mercy. It's a diabolical notion, in my view -- one that threatens to pull us back into the world of never-ending blood feuds. But if Iron Man 2020 and the recent X books are any indication, it's a notion that's reigning supreme at one of America's largest comic book publishers.

Is anyone else troubled by this development? Or is it just me?