In light of all this discussion of rights, I feel the need to bring up something that I see as an issue...
Regardless of weather people want to be heroes or not, freedom HAS to be balanced against public safety. Freedom of expression is clearly limited when it becomes a danger (or in many cases even a percieved danger) simply because total legal anarchy (while i may morally agree with it in principal) is not optimal for maintaing the current standard of living and benefits we enjoy in Western Capatilist societies.
Put simply, there need to be some rules or else certain parts of our complex society would fall apart.
Now, given that situations like Stanford are a potential outcome of superheroing, there is obvious legal precidence for imposing the registration (though the N zone prison and employment of former villians in the thunderbolts are touchier subjects, and should probably be delt with seperatly).
However, who achually thinks that the registration and government control of the heroes is going to lead to a reduction in the threat posed to society as a whole.
In the short term it has clearly made things more dangerous and allowed some erosion on prisoners rights. Does anyone think that proposed government plan to control heros will make people safer?
