Watchmen – what a great premise for a movie. A ridiculous hypothesis (the best kind) – would you kill 20 million people to save 5 billion? To coin Star Trek – do the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one? Is there justice in it?

These are the most difficult of questions which is why Watchmen may one day be considered the greatest graphic novel ever written (and a not so bad movie either).

Some view these issues as black and white; some see shades of gray and some simply use sheer math to determine morality while others ignore these questions altogether.

Is it easier to consider the intentional mass murder of people compared to the intentional murder of one? Is one worse than the other? By what scale? Is morality an equation?

To put it another way – do you have to be inhuman to be able to make such decisions?

I have no answers but that is usually ok…it is in the questions I feel we learn more, not the answers.

For me everything is run through the filter of my faith…it always has been that way…we all have faith of a kind and we all view everything through it.

There are faith questions and statements that are just as important.

Questions like:

“Eloi! Eloi! Lama sabachthani?”

or

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing.”

or

“Will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”

Powerful questions…we learn from the questions.