Does anybody else ultimately think Batman is a wuss? I loved the first game and eagerly await the sequel, but Batman as a character is an enabler for the Joker.

If over the years you come to realize that the Joker will only escape and kill again, and you don't end the madness once and for all when you have the opportunity, you ultimately seem partially responsible. It's as if you knew what would happen with Hitler, but you didn't put a bullet in him in his youth before he killed 12 million people and started a war, all because murder is "against your principles."

The society and its systems are also responsible, don't get me wrong, because they just keep putting the Joker in Arkham knowing that he will continue to cause problems. As was said in Batman Begins—criminals thrive on the indulgence of society.

I'm not even necessarily a supporter of the death penalty, I'm just saying that at some point Batman stopping short of actually "solving" the problem may send a nice moral message to young people, but in practice it renders him ultimately impotent and frustrating as a hero. He's already violent in the extreme, but it's sound and fury signifying nothing if the problem just keeps returning.

Does anybody else think like this?