Greg Rucka Quotes
You have to accept that Batman is a fact of life in Gotham City, and on top of that, you have to accept that somehow this city manages to function with a police force that's 90% corrupt.
Rucka, Greg. Interview. Comic Book Resources, CBR, 2012.
In the quoted passage, it describes Diogenes as observing a thief being arrested in one of the religious temples by the officials of the temple. He had pilfered one of the temple treasures. Not unlike modern times, most religious organizations raised money be getting donations from the public. Some of the means of many of the religious groups are and have been of dubious morality and if used in commerce would generally be considered fraud. This quotation shows that this is not a new phenomenon nor was it limited to monotheistic religions.
He was the lead investigator of President Jacques Chiraq who had admitted being present, when mayor of Paris, at major payoffs of kickbacks to his party associates for awarding of public contracts. However, the French authorities gave the President immunity and ordered the investigation halted.
This has been the case in EVERY jurisdiction that has had capital punishment. Capital punishment does provide vengeance for victims, relatives and society. And in many societies execution is less expensive than prison for life. But it has never curtailed crime despite the example. In London, they used to have public executions as examples to inhibit crime. While the crowd was watching a pickpocket be hung, other pickpockets were relieving many spectators of their wallets and watches.
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Gregory Rucka is an American comic book writer, screenwriter, and novelist. He is known for his work on well-known comics such as Action Comics, Batwoman, Detective Comics, the DC Comics miniseries Superman: World of New Krypton for, as well as for creating the Image Comics series Lazarus and novels such as his Atticus Kodiak series. He also wrote the screenplay to the 2020 film The Old Guard, based on his comics series of the same name.
