Hi, please forgive me and have patience with me for a few moments...I'm having trouble following your line of reasoning. So just bear with me.
You're honestly blaming Moira and Chloe for refusing to be cowed by Lex's demands, for refusing to allow Lex to define the remainder of her existence? For refusing to *allow* Lex to threaten and manipulate her while being held against her will, for refusing to divulge secrets about *herself* that she had every right to keep to herself, she deserved to be abused--locked in a cage with another mutant *ordered* by Lex to beat her--and is thus responsible for Lex's imminent war with using his illegally obtained and unethically assembled mutant army (who are essentially slaves themselves)? Moira, a private citizen, was in the wrong for not allowing herself to be used as a weapon by someone she had *no* reason to trust or believe?
Frankly, *we* the audience with the omniscient don't know what Lex's justification is for kidnapping, imprisoning, and torturing other private human beings, nor is that in any way a justifiable means to any of his ends. What makes *Lex* so special that this woman, a private woman who committed no crime, should submit her life and power to him? What gives him a right to hold her against her will and make demands of her, make "pick your poison" type offers? He had no right to see her powers, whether she knew she had them or not. Showing him, helping him, is her right, her decision, and hers alone.
Why are you giving *Lex* the right to define her parameters of existence? Is she not an autonomous being? Are not all the other mutants, for that matter? What kind of "offer" is being held against your will and used as a pawn or to see your own daughter/killed/have your daughter killed? I'm sorry, but this makes absolutely no sense to me.
It's analogous to blaming a concentration camp prisoner for REFUSING to comply with their captor's "offers", refusing to be (further) experimented on, exploited, used as labor/a tool in the side of the war that is *detrimental* to their to their own cause and hope for freedom.
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You're honestly blaming Moira and Chloe for refusing to be cowed by Lex's demands, for refusing to allow Lex to define the remainder of her existence? For refusing to *allow* Lex to threaten and manipulate her while being held against her will, for refusing to divulge secrets about *herself* that she had every right to keep to herself, she deserved to be abused--locked in a cage with another mutant *ordered* by Lex to beat her--and is thus responsible for Lex's imminent war with using his illegally obtained and unethically assembled mutant army (who are essentially slaves themselves)? Moira, a private citizen, was in the wrong for not allowing herself to be used as a weapon by someone she had *no* reason to trust or believe?
Frankly, *we* the audience with the omniscient don't know what Lex's justification is for kidnapping, imprisoning, and torturing other private human beings, nor is that in any way a justifiable means to any of his ends. What makes *Lex* so special that this woman, a private woman who committed no crime, should submit her life and power to him? What gives him a right to hold her against her will and make demands of her, make "pick your poison" type offers? He had no right to see her powers, whether she knew she had them or not. Showing him, helping him, is her right, her decision, and hers alone.
Why are you giving *Lex* the right to define her parameters of existence? Is she not an autonomous being? Are not all the other mutants, for that matter? What kind of "offer" is being held against your will and used as a pawn or to see your own daughter/killed/have your daughter killed? I'm sorry, but this makes absolutely no sense to me.
It's analogous to blaming a concentration camp prisoner for REFUSING to comply with their captor's "offers", refusing to be (further) experimented on, exploited, used as labor/a tool in the side of the war that is *detrimental* to their to their own cause and hope for freedom.