Brittney Johnstone

PHIL-102

Professor Mahesh Ananth

06/07/21

Should Bruce Wayne Have Become Batman?

Bruce Wayne was just a normal kid that was born into wealth because of his parents. He

only inherited his parents’ fortune after they died because of a Gotham City criminal. So, when

twenty - five - year - old Wayne takes up the pricey, exceptionally unsafe undertaking of fighting

for equity as Batman, he makes an ethical judgment that doing so is a fitting method to invest his

energy and his acquired abundance. He chooses, basically, that the correct thing to do is honor

his folks' memory by tidying up Gotham City's wrongdoing. Bruce Wayne should become

Batman because humans have a moral obligation to assist others who are suffering and dying due

to a lack of basic needs.

For someone who wants to become a hero should always want to help people around the

world or city in this case. According to the philosopher Peter Singer, he argues that humans have

a moral obligation to assist other who are suffering and dying due to a lack of basic needs, such

as food, shelter, and medical care. If you cannot tell, Singer is a utilitarian. Utilitarianism is the

moral theory that instructs us to perform those actions that will bring about the greatest good or

least amount of evil for the greatest number of people, based upon the fact that all people are

morally equal. For example, if a child is drowning, someone should be willing to dive into the
lake or pool to save the kid. With this example, it appears that Singer’s moral principle

accurately captures why anyone coming upon the drowning child should offer aid: one can save

a life and do so at very little moral cost.

Singer reasons that the following moral principle should clearly be part of our everyday

thinking: “If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby

sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it.” Let’ s call

Singer’ s argument “the argument from prevention.” Basically, he is arguing that if suffering and

death from a lack of food, shelter, and medical care are bad and if it is in our power to prevent

such bad things from happening, then we as individuals ought, morally, to prevent such bad

things.

A utilitarian like Singer can acknowledge that if Wayne is successful as Batman — and

that’ s a very big if— he can provide a considerable amount of crime - fighting support for

Gotham City, which likely will result in a reduction of some suffering. But such help likely pales

in comparison to the benefits he can immediately bring to the masses of poor and needy around

the world, especially considering the probability of his fortune’s being put to good use by a

reputable aid organization. Some people do not think that superheroes like Batman are

considered a hero. People may think that the police and other emergency personnel are the real

heroes of the city.

Bruce Wayne was just a kid that came from a wealthy family that unfortunately passed

because of a criminal within Gotham City. In this way, when twenty - five - year - old Wayne
takes up the expensive, especially hazardous endeavor of battling for value as Batman, he makes

a moral judgment that doing so is a fitting technique to contribute his energy and his procured

wealth. He picks, essentially, that the right thing to do is honor his people's memory by cleaning

up Gotham City's bad behavior. I believe that Wayne should become Batman because he was

willing to help anyone that was in trouble and help the city of Gotham to become a safer place

for everyone so they won’t end up like him after his parents died.