Honestly Dr.manhattan was kinda dumb. “Oh I need to stop humanity from nuking itself” meanwhile I demonstrate easy ability to travel to other planets.
Doctor Manhattan’s ability to save the human race wasn’t the issue. He was basically a god. It was his willingness. He didn’t feel the need to stop humanity doing anything:
A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there’s no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?
They’re unquantifiable to us. Manhattan had a brain the size of a planet; certainly he could have answered the riddle of “what defines life.” That part bothered me.
I have no idea tmhow to quote things. But dude that last part is such a shit take. There’s no structural difference between my phone as with a full charge and my phone without, why do I care, because it’s fucking dead.
Doctor Manhattan’s ability to save the human race wasn’t the issue. He was basically a god. It was his willingness. He didn’t feel the need to stop humanity doing anything:
They’re unquantifiable to us. Manhattan had a brain the size of a planet; certainly he could have answered the riddle of “what defines life.” That part bothered me.
But you’re right, his problem was attitude.
I have no idea tmhow to quote things. But dude that last part is such a shit take. There’s no structural difference between my phone as with a full charge and my phone without, why do I care, because it’s fucking dead.
The point is he’s so far beyond humanity that he doesn’t care. He relates less with humans than you do with your phone.
If he just gave zero shits about humanity, then why did he kill Rorschach.