User blog comment:DYBAD/Character Sheet/@comment-24955665-20160816020851/@comment-4867780-20160818074549

Theory can get pretty confusing at times, so let's use an example.

Imagine a group of hardened thugs break into you home, break every bone in your body, rape the hell out of your GF before doing the same to her, then rape you as well because why not, then take all your valuable stuff and dump your unconscious broken bodies in the nearest junkyard, before going their merry way to enjoy their juicy loot.

When you finally wake up in an ocean of pain and realize the GF next to you has gone cold, what will you say ? Something like "They were stronger so they were right. My bad" ?

No, you won't. Not by a hundred thousand miles ^ ^,

That's the "hypocrisy" I was refering to : promoting values when they are aligned with your interests, and ditching them when they turn on you. Though maybe "two-faced liar" is the right expression, I remember hypocrisy has more subtle meanings (no offense intended, just trying clarify the idea).

No, Lawrence understands but respectfully disagrees with uncle Ben's "with great power comes great responsibility" famous line. That's why his motto is "with great powers comes an awesome life" instead. To him, power is like a big bank account : it doesn't make you right, it doesn't make you responsible, it just improves your overall quality of life.

In his eyes, one is only ever responsible for his own actions. So while dishing out baseless punishment is just plain dickery, he doesn't have any moral obligation to help people he doesn't care about. That's why his citizens are so pampered while the multiverse at large is left to handle its own troubles.

He may still help out if he feels like it, and often does in practice. Not because he actually cares about the victims (they typically mean nothing to him), but because the disgusting two-facedness of the bad guys feels like chalkboard scraping to his own ears (clash of values), inducing a vibrant desire to wreck the source. And beating them up is both fair and fun anyway, not to mention being hailed a hero is pretty damn satisfying, so there's really no reason to hold back ^ ^

As a matter of fact, Lawrence killed a great many people during his many adventures, and every single one of them had it coming. They were the kind who doesn't hesistate to destroy innocent lives for fun and profit, so he saw nothing wrong with brutally ending their wretched existence. Besides, it's the one opportunity he can gleefully murder with a clear conscience, so it would be a shame to miss it.