Board Thread:The Flash discussions/@comment-9346948-20160525000159/@comment-25322628-20160717014218

Kaestal wrote: Aggression25 wrote:

Kaestal wrote: I guess you're a bit too optimistic, ya can't save everyone.

And the scenario was the fact that Laurel was ALIVE resulted in those deaths and her dying was implied to be the only solution. Optimism is one of the factors that make heroes so great! Being in an unwinnable situation and saying "Oh ya, I can totally save everyone because I have optimism" is naive.

Here is a scenario to think on; you are a super powered individual in the middle of a street and there are two bombs attached to two separate people's spine on opposite ends of the block. They are near a group of people and you can reach one of them to remove it safely via hand vibration or phasing or something, but it takes you 6 seconds to reach them and 1 second to remove it.

The bombs are both set to go off in 12 seconds. People will die no matter what as you are alone, and you also might hesitate for a brief moment and everyone dies.

While being optimistic is good there are limits on what is able to be accomplished and this needs to be recognized.

Suppose this too, Laure Lance being alive is resulting in other people dying because she was supposed to remain dead and some mystical force is draining them of their lifeforce and is sustaining her own. No magic potion can fix it, no sorceror has the ability to balance it out, no time travel will undo it as its a fixed point in time and shouldn't have been undone.

Would you really let this one person live if an untold number will die because of it? Where there's a will, there's a way. No matter what, you find a way to preserve the lives of innocent civilians.