You assume that these government institutions will be inherently good. You question why they would ever let themselves be controlled....but if they've been borna nd trained since birth, how easy woudl it be to cotnrol a bunch of new warriors that you've institutionalized for their entire lives?
I also see it isolating new mutants/heroes. They'd have to go to training schools, separated and probably ostracized by the 'normal' community.
And if these registration files were so okay, why was the Mutant Registration Act so opposed by the X-Men? They knew it could be abused. They kenw that current mentality towards mutants was not in their favor, just as mentality about superheores is not in their favor.
And if they were so 'safe' why are the Xavier Protocals always such an issue? This is so easy to abuse. Any technophile like Sage, or Reverand Stryker could hack in and find everything. This registration also just opens another means of finding out a hero's identity and the identity of his/her loved ones. As it stood, the only way it could be found out would be a psychic. But now anyone else can find out.
And as it looks from Spiderman Civil War, the identity must be revealed publically, since Spiderman's is at a press conference revealing his face.
Another point is that how can the government rationalize registering mutants and forcing them to train and serve when they aren't even being protected by current laws in the government? It's like requiring gays to serve and protect even though we're second class citizens in the coutnry and the army.
Plus, if America registers all of its heros and makes them serve and register as 'weapons of mass destruction' (the language reveals just what the motivation behind this act is: prejudice, anger, and fear) what about other coutnries where superpowers are required ot enlist, serve, and fight?
The whole concept doesn't even seem to have control. Insitutes could be all over the country, which means that they cannot all be supervised like they should to avoid any corruption. One corrupt superpower could influence all his charges to serve him. It could even foster a sense of superiority in the charges. Superpowers are different from police officers because police elect to be given this power and train for their own conscious choice ot use that power as a tool of peace and compliance. When you force people with that power to use it one way even if it wasn't necessarily their choice, you're going to encounter a growing monster that youv'e created on your own.
And what if someone does rebel? You'll imprison them? Just how many cells will be necessary and what quality will they have to be for each individual power? And imprisoning people because they don't want to serve is like the policy in other coutnries where peoiple are jailed for not enlisting. It takes away a freedom of choice in how to use one's powers and how to live one's life. It takes away the choice from parents who don't believe in what the government would be trainign their children for, even if it's masked as 'training and control of their powers for their own good'. The ultimate goal is to make them into some fighting force. It does take away freedom.
God, we're talking about this like it's a real policy. I feel so geeky
Y'all can keep on talking of course, I just wanted to do something different. Let's do something simple. Let's talk about favorites! As comic books are a visual medium at its core, I love artists! My favorite is Alex Ross! A sampling...
