I probably should have been more careful in my phrasing, since I really *don't* advocate violence, even fictional violence, and I know I get upset when people say they want my favorite characters to die, so I apologize for that.
I completely disagree with you that Lex's offer to Moira was reasonable, though. (I'm not quite sure what you mean by his offer to Chloe). He was holding her hostage and blackmailing her. He endangered her life by putting her in the holding cell with the superpowered mutant to get her to reveal her power, and tried to force her to bring another mutant back to his facility. Why on earth should she have trusted him or his intentions?
I'm not saying that Moira was a shining example of heroism--she was manipulating people to protect herself and her daughter. I find her actions intelligible but not laudable. She arguably endangered Chloe several times by controlling her from afar. I find actions understandable since I can see she felt she had no other recourse, but that doesn't mean I condone them.
In the same way, I can understand why Lex, fearing an imminent alien invasion, feels it necessary to create an army of mutants. His decision is intelligible--I can understand *why* he thinks he must do this, and I'm happy the writers are giving him an intelligible motive rather than making him generically evil--but I don't condone his actions, nevertheless. Kidnapping people, experimenting on them, blackmailing them, holding them against their will and in some cases torturing them are not justifiable behaviors, in my book. I don't condone them from my government officials when they excuse them by saying they need to torture people to defend our country, and I wouldn't be in favor of an involuntary draft, so I'm certainly not going to condone Lex's similar reasoning to justify the fact that he's using people against their will, endangering them and in some cases torturing them.
I'm still trying to figure out what you mean by his reasonable offer to Chloe. Threatening to imprison her? Threatening to do something worse than imprisonment?
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I completely disagree with you that Lex's offer to Moira was reasonable, though. (I'm not quite sure what you mean by his offer to Chloe). He was holding her hostage and blackmailing her. He endangered her life by putting her in the holding cell with the superpowered mutant to get her to reveal her power, and tried to force her to bring another mutant back to his facility. Why on earth should she have trusted him or his intentions?
I'm not saying that Moira was a shining example of heroism--she was manipulating people to protect herself and her daughter. I find her actions intelligible but not laudable. She arguably endangered Chloe several times by controlling her from afar. I find actions understandable since I can see she felt she had no other recourse, but that doesn't mean I condone them.
In the same way, I can understand why Lex, fearing an imminent alien invasion, feels it necessary to create an army of mutants. His decision is intelligible--I can understand *why* he thinks he must do this, and I'm happy the writers are giving him an intelligible motive rather than making him generically evil--but I don't condone his actions, nevertheless. Kidnapping people, experimenting on them, blackmailing them, holding them against their will and in some cases torturing them are not justifiable behaviors, in my book. I don't condone them from my government officials when they excuse them by saying they need to torture people to defend our country, and I wouldn't be in favor of an involuntary draft, so I'm certainly not going to condone Lex's similar reasoning to justify the fact that he's using people against their will, endangering them and in some cases torturing them.
I'm still trying to figure out what you mean by his reasonable offer to Chloe. Threatening to imprison her? Threatening to do something worse than imprisonment?