Essay Topic

The story of Watchmen ended and wrapped up nicely however there is still one question, who was the bad guy? Adrian Veidt killed millions of people so the planet wouldn't go into nuclear war. He used psychological terrorism on the leaders of Russia and the United States to stop the cold war, but at what cost. The problem that this book creates is that a single person cannot be hero of an entire civilization without making a moral compromise. An example of this is The Comedian who would help individuals while making serious moral compromises in the lengths he abused the felons. While we look at this master plan by Adrian Veidt, Dr. Manhattan could have prevented this entire plan by threatening the leaders of the counties involved. This leads me to my essay topic, which of the heroes in the book made the largest moral compromise compared to his or hers help of the common good?