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Well, finally we have super heroes in the world….Should we?

Asked by coffeenut (6174points) January 9th, 2011

Ok so in Seattle there is a real-life superhero movement…. lol
here—um..Link kind of works. This is the story “Real-life superhero stops car robbery in Seattle”...
Civilian anti-crime community groups have come and gone i.e.: The Guardian Angels…and so on… But none of them wear costumes…except this one…..

Is wearing costumes and masks when dealing with the public really a good idea….even if you’re just trying to help?

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snowberry's avatar

What a riot! I love it!

Joker94's avatar

Eh, what can it hurt? I think it’s pretty brave of them to make a stand against crime.

marinelife's avatar

It is vigilantism.

ucme's avatar

Maybe The Incredibles had it right. “Let’s make their secret identity their only identity.”

janbb's avatar

So real life has caught up with the movies?

Rarebear's avatar

I know Motor Mouth’s mother (another of the real life superheroes). They all take themselves very seriously.
http://reallifesuperheroes.org/wiki/index.php?title=Motor_Mouth

TexasDude's avatar

These are dangerous terrorists who should thrown into prison camps for the good of the community.~

Hawaii_Jake's avatar

Life is imitating art? Nice.

Rarebear's avatar

@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard No they’re not. They’re just a little odd. Mostly they go around doing community service stuff.

TexasDude's avatar

@Rarebear you missed my tilde. I was hoping my sarcasm would be more obvious than that :-(

coffeenut's avatar

I’m thinking of getting a bunch of people together….going to Seattle…dressing up as super villains and messing with the “heroes” lol

Rytt's avatar

On one hand, yay. People are actually standing up for each other. But I don’t think that the costume is necessary. If everyone looked out for each other than we wouldn’t need ‘real life super heroes’.

I also think the fact that the news covered is just going to make that guy a target for violence.

mandolin's avatar

As mentioned in Kickass…enforcing justice as a vigilante isn’t a good idea, but it IS surprising it took so long for someone to try it, right? The costume makes sense. They’re trying to be a symbol. Even cops were uniforms. Their cause is inspiring but the sad reality is, even masks aren’t bulletproof.

GabrielsLamb's avatar

I love it in theory as a campy fun thing but one has to assume that the person doing it may have certain issues and since no one actually HAS superpowers that can be attributed to anything more than biological and perfectly rational differences, it isn’t really safe and if it spreads, eventually the bad guys want to be villians and before you know it every idiot and their mother will be running around the streets wearing Batman underoos, tights, and halloween masks…

Eventually anonymity allows crime to get worse, not better which is psychologically why the human being mostly tends to identify authority, with ONE uniform.

Which sucks, and it’s no fun and I personally might enjoy making myself observation woman or Rodania and sit and think and watch everyone else making fools of themselves…

and now that that little rant is over with… the answer is NO! Not until society learns to chill the hell out and relax.

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