"You watching me over my shoulder is throwing me off," Kon said, squinting as he tried to fall into a better pattern in his Tetris game.
"Anyway, superheroing's my job. It's more than a job. It's... I don't know, a calling. There's things I can do that other people can't, and doing them saves lives. Despite people being...people, I generally like people, and I definitely care about my friends and other heroes. If I'm saving the world, it's because I don't want the people I care about to die. Then from caring about them, it's pretty easy to think about how there might be lots of other good people like them worth saving out there--which means saving everybody just in case."
It wasn't the prettiest picture of morality he could paint, and wasn't like how someone like Superman might have justified what they did, but it was how he thought.
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"Anyway, superheroing's my job. It's more than a job. It's... I don't know, a calling. There's things I can do that other people can't, and doing them saves lives. Despite people being...people, I generally like people, and I definitely care about my friends and other heroes. If I'm saving the world, it's because I don't want the people I care about to die. Then from caring about them, it's pretty easy to think about how there might be lots of other good people like them worth saving out there--which means saving everybody just in case."
It wasn't the prettiest picture of morality he could paint, and wasn't like how someone like Superman might have justified what they did, but it was how he thought.