<div>Ben, well said.... Magneto is a cold-blooded killer when necessary to get his way (who cares little for "flat scans"), while the Professor is a man of conscience and integrity. In the comics they did repeatedly say that Charles Xavier might very well end up a martyr for his cause, which was a noble but perhaps ultimately doomed one.... On the other hand, Magneto's path would have lead to a horrific race war, leading to a global apocalypse! </div>
<div> </div><div> </div><div>John<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Ben Zaiboc <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bbenzai@yahoo.com" target="_blank">bbenzai@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid" class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">Mike Dougherty <<a href="mailto:msd001@gmail.com">msd001@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> My wife commented this evening that seeing the movie X-Men: First<br>
> Class she found herself siding more with Magneto than Dr. X.<br>
><br>
</div><div class="im">> I always thought Magneto made very convincing arguments.<br>
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</div>The point of Magneto is to be The Bad Guy. So he doesn't care about other people. Dr. X does. Magneto wants the mutants to win, but he also wants the baselines to lose. This is not a convincing argument to me. We want win-win scenarios, not win-lose ones.<br>
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The most telling scene in the X-men films, to me, is when Mystique loses her powers, and Magneto instantly turns his back on her, leaving her naked on the ground, to die for all he cares. That defines his character more than any powers or arguments about mutants vs. baselines. I don't want that to be associated with transhumanism. Do you?<br>
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Ben Zaiboc<br>
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