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**** It's also a subtle punishment of Veidt. Ozymandias obssesses on small details. Manhattan is fucking with his head a bit to suggest there's even a ''possibility'' that Rorschach is still alive.
* I read somewhere that the reason Rorschach is crying when he unmasks himself is because he has realised about his hypocrisy. He was in favour of President Truman's order to use the atomic bomb, reasoning that it was better than having to invade Japan, which would have been much more costlier in lives, both in the Japanese and the American side. And now, he has realised that Ozymandias' plan is exactly the same (killing relatively few people to save many, many others), and he finds himself in the quandary that his morals want him to tell everyone, yet his personal beliefs want him to stay quiet. Probably he was crying because he realised that Manhattan, by killing him, would stop him from having to go against his morals or his personal beliefs.
** Why do people keep trying to compare the dropping of the atomic bombs to what Veidt did? The atomic bombs were acts of declared war, against a power that not only had vowed that they'd kill all of our POWs if we landed an invasion force on their soil, but had also demonstrated they were willing to murder ''their own'' population rather than letting them "suffer" under American occupation. The atomic bombs were an attempt to end a war directly, openly, and honestly, and the Japanese were even warned about it. Veidt's plan was mass murder based on deception, manipulation, against a population he was not at declared war with, based on nothing but his own sense of superiority and subjective morals.
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== Why Did They Let Him Live? (Spoilers) ==
* Why did they all let Ozymandias live? I can understand why they didn't tell anyone that Ozymandias was behind the destruction of New York. But they're ''vigilantes''. They kill outside the law based on their own moral code. How could they justify leaving him alive? It might be that I don't find the murder of innocents acceptable under any circumstances (not even to prevent a nuclear holocaust), but I would have killed Ozymandias and left his body to rot in the Antarctic.
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