![]() He's a utilitarian who presents himself as a liberal for public relations purposes. Just to note, that's not to say that he's right, just to say that he is an outspoken anarchist and his comics tend to reflect that.Įxcept Ozymandias isn't really a liberal. ![]() In that way, I think he pre-supposed that most of the people reading Watchmen would condemn the right, so he wanted to show that the left should be seen as just as harmful. I think Moore was trying to slowly build up to anarchism by first showing how an obviously psychotic and repressed person wouldn't be fit to decide how others should live (Rorschach and the Comedian, the moralistic and militaristic right respectively), then builds up to showing how even the most brilliant, altruistic, and healthy mind would only commit atrocities if allowed to impose their will on the world. Ozymandias is an altruistic, brilliant problem solver, but because of his arrogant belief in his own righteousness commits the single greatest atrocity in human history. Rorschach is bigoted and brutal, so he ends up an angry, impoverished psychopath who personally suffers only so that he can make the people he hates suffer more. I think you can see that in how he depicts Rorschach and Ozymandias. He likely had more contempt for the right as he saw them wanting to dictate how individuals should live their lives, but still would have held liberals as fundamentally wanting to have the power to govern. ![]() I think it's important to note that Moore is an anarchist and likely hates liberals as well. ![]()
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