Yeah, but I think the killing of the professor, et al was ancillary to his real issue....HIS weapons were the ones doing the killing. HE was responsible for the deaths.
By that logic, when bin Laden had his men fly planes into the Twin Towers and Pentagon, Boeing was responsible for the deaths.
The planes were not made to cause death. That they were used in that mannner was unfortunate but, there's no reason at all for the manufacturor of the planes to feel any guilt or responsibility.
Weapons, OTOH, are made to kill. Stark would have no illusions about that. However, it is one thing to intellectually KNOW that the product you made is responsible for death. It's another thing entirely to SEE it and experience it up close and personal.
I've read somewhere that several scientists that worked on the Manhattan Project were extremely upset after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They knew what they were making and what it was to be used for but, when faced with the destruction that it caused...even though it ultimately saved more lives than it took...they found it reprehensible.
As I said earlier, the counterpoint to mine makes as much sense to me as my own. And obviously it works to advance the plot in the flick...just would have been interesting to see it the other way.
Oderint, dum metuant.
You are a god damned idiot, you know that? You ought to be smacked upside your dumb-fuck head, even after all these years. Shame on you!
