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asked:
"I think that it’s not right to kill people in order to save abstract lives." - I was still asking in relation to the first example, about Joker and the kid - if superhero ran out of options from stopping Joker from killing a kid in this very moment, except for killing Joker, but chooses not to and allows the kid to die, because he needs to be better than the villain, it makes him look like a jerk. I don't know if I'm making myself clear, you won't mind me sending you a bigger post about this?
I think you’re trying to build an inescapable doom-trap to get the outcome that you want. The problem with this is that escaping from inescapable doom-traps is what super heroes do. On a fundamental level, I do not buy that Batman cannot save that kid in any way other than killing the Joker. Batman doesn’t allow the kid to be killed, sure–but he also doesn’t need to kill the joker in order to do that. He’s Batman, after all.
A story in which Batman couldn’t find a way and did kill the Joker would be a lousy Batman story, a violation of the basic premise of the character.