The connotation is all that stuff I described. “Might makes right” implies that it is being done for personal gain, not for good, and that there aren’t limits to it beyond the use of more might.
And what term would you prefer for the phenomenon which I described?
You could call him a one man nanny state. But I would disagree that even this accurately describes Superman. Just like Superman doesn’t casually do bad things for personal gain, he doesn’t casually do them to benefit others. Stories where Superman runs the world as a dictatorship are explicitly meant as Superman being evil.
The connotation is all that stuff I described. “Might makes right” implies that it is being done for personal gain, not for good, and that there aren’t limits to it beyond the use of more might.
I see. Well, uh… I disagree. “Might makes right” implies literally none of those things, in my opinion.
And what term would you prefer for the phenomenon which I described?
You could call him a one man nanny state. But I would disagree that even this accurately describes Superman.
I agree that calling Superman a “one man nanny state” would be inaccurate, and I would certainly not use any such term.
Just like Superman doesn’t casually do bad things for personal gain, he doesn’t casually do them to benefit others.
I agree that calling Superman a “one man nanny state” would be inaccurate, and I would certainly not use any such term.
It’s inaccurate for how Superman typically behaves, but it’s accurate in that it matches your claims about him. You said:
The point I am making is that “might makes right, and right is this ideology that I have which involves various things that I claim are good” is still “might makes right”. Superman isn’t “in it for himself”, he’s in it for other people—which in fact is much worse.
The term for a government which harms people for their own good is a nanny state. Superman doing similar things all on his own using his great power makes him a one man nanny state.
Your term carries with it an inaccurate connotation.
(And if you didn’t intend that connotation, it doesn’t make sense as a criticism of Superman or a reason to call him evil anyway.)
What is the connotation?
EDIT: And what term would you prefer for the phenomenon which I described?
The connotation is all that stuff I described. “Might makes right” implies that it is being done for personal gain, not for good, and that there aren’t limits to it beyond the use of more might.
You could call him a one man nanny state. But I would disagree that even this accurately describes Superman. Just like Superman doesn’t casually do bad things for personal gain, he doesn’t casually do them to benefit others. Stories where Superman runs the world as a dictatorship are explicitly meant as Superman being evil.
I see. Well, uh… I disagree. “Might makes right” implies literally none of those things, in my opinion.
I agree that calling Superman a “one man nanny state” would be inaccurate, and I would certainly not use any such term.
Indeed; nor did I claim otherwise.
It’s inaccurate for how Superman typically behaves, but it’s accurate in that it matches your claims about him. You said:
The term for a government which harms people for their own good is a nanny state. Superman doing similar things all on his own using his great power makes him a one man nanny state.
It does not.
A “nanny state” style government is not literally the only scenario in which someone does something to someone else for that person’s own good.