I think people are questioning the ethics of Batman more these days given how discussions around poverty and crime has changed. Given how crime is more often than not a result of poverty and a lack of social safety net than greed or lack of morals, the ethics of Batman bypassing the justice system^1^ and beating the shit out of henchman comes into question.

My exposure to this line of thinking was FD Signifier’s video on edge lords, but I haven’t seen other people talk about it until now.

1. the justice system also fails these people but we’ll ignore that for the sake of argument