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Well, the simple question of 'Is character x or y?' is very different from 'The character is either x or y, choose.'. You can easily answer 'neither' to the question of 'Is character good or bad?'.
That being said, Alan Moore himself stated Rorschach is meant to be a bad example. So if you want to make the argument that Alan Moore is media illiterate, I'm all ears — I don't really know much about the guy because Watchmen really wasn't that impressive to me. (I recognize that if I had read it when it was new and hadn't inspired so many other stories that this opinion might be different.)
'Nice argument, but I've already depicted you as the soyjak and myself as the chad.' energy.
At least I can confirm my tag, saves me from needing to interact with you.
I mean I appreciate you participating in at least that you're continuing to demonstrate, if not media illiteracy, actual illiteracy.
My remix of the comic was done to demonstrate the same obtuseness of the comic, which is exactly the point I'm making. Good versus evil, and the idea that one is a right interpretation and the other is wrong, is exceptionally reductionist. And you, and I really have to say thank you for this, you playing the part of just parroting that exceptionally reductionist logic, for which, I really can't thank you enough.
Not only have you did we get to experience a worked example, we got to live out a meta-version of the comic itself. And we could not have done it without your media illiteracy or reductionist mindset. 10/10. No notes.