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Originally posted by Rob Kamphausen:
[lemme ask you a question. yer human, right? (ok, another question). how would you react if you were constantly chasing around this looney guy whom you wanted to try to rehabilitate, but instead, he crippled your partner, murdered another, and kidnapped/tortured your best friend?

the more "human reaction," to me, is to go nutty with pent up rage and lash out at the criminal, not to share one-liners while waiting for the police.
Are you also saying that the most human reaction a kid to have to seeing his parents killed is to dress up like a bat so that you can sneak around at night and scare crooks?

You make some good arguements, but you seem to forget a very important point: Batman himself is mentally unstable. He, too, is insane, though to a different degree. Batman is not going to react like Rob Kamphausen and vice versa.

Rage is an acceptable byproduct of his frustrations and so forth. But don't forget that the Batman/Joker relationship is wholly different than it is for the rest of his rogues galary. There bond is more deeply rooted and twisted than any others'.