"Hiss..." Adventure Superman sucked in a breath and whispered to Adventure Batman, "He's been around Bruce too long. That was way too vicious."
"But he has a point." Adventure Batman spread his hands. "What exactly did Owlman gain by abandoning his moral bottom line?"
The two looked at each other, wide-eyed, and clearly neither could come up with an answer.
Many people believed that those who abandoned morality gained more advantages in society, because they exempted themselves from certain unwritten social rules. By sacrificing others' interests without restraint to pursue their own, they naturally ought to gain more benefits.
But the premise of that rule was that they had to actually gain more benefits. If they sacrificed their morality, stopped at nothing to achieve their goals, and ultimately succeeded, then even if most people despised them, they would still have to grit their teeth and call them a formidable figure.
But if they sacrificed their morality and still failed to achieve their goals, then they would inevitably look like scoundrels who harmed others without benefiting themselves. When people passed by them, they would not only curse them, but might even spit on them.
How to turn low morality into an advantage was a profound subject. If one insisted on putting everything in this world, including morality, up for sale in exchange for profit, then one had to be smart enough to calculate the accounts clearly. Otherwise, the trifling gains bought with sacrificed morality would never be enough to withstand the pressure imposed by social rules.
Many people chose to be good and follow morality not because they were stupid, but because it was the easiest and most convenient way for ordinary people. As long as they lived according to standards recognized by the public, their lives might not be especially