No spoiler found :)

Further, it’s important to notice that in the world out there this sort of judgement is largely mediated by who the perpetrators and the victims are (e.g. gender, social role and status). For instance, in Gotham (Joke’s fictional city), when three upper class citizens are killed on the train; even the mayor comes forward on television to voice his outrage. But when Joker is battered on the streets by a group of youths, no justice takes place.

I would rather go the other way. The mayor could keep silence about the harmed, because then this silence would be fairly distributed among all. Conversely, it is not possible. When he talks about the one special man, he cannot mean all men. Unless he has the rare gift of not inciting the thought of revenge in any of his listeners' hearts. Those who are unable to do so should rather say nothing and take a more indirect path to allow the city to be a place of peace.

We human beings always feel the very subtle difference between being and pretence. When we choose pretence, we want justice, when we choose being, we want peace.

I found your reference to the naming of Frankenstein's creature interesting. So an object whose creator someone wants to be cannot be a subject with its own name worth to him. And so he can proceed with the result as he wants. Finding it beautiful or ugly without granting it anything of its own. It is more a possession. In extreme cases, parents have such a view of their children.

And then Frankenstein and Joker and all the other characters we can think of are possibilities of subjective expression. At all times, the potential in each of us is to be crazy and bad, as well as clear and good.

Greetings to you:)