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Do you symphathize with The Joker?

I do not sympathize with the Joker as he is a coldblooded sociopath and a homicidal maniac, killing lives as he wishes, without even hesitating, treating his notorious tricks all as jokes for Batman.

Firstly, he kills with no qualms, and even “announced the name and exact time of death of his next victim over the radio” which is really cruel. He even “leaves his victims a permanent death grin”, which further proves his ruthless character.

Next, he even issued an ultimatum to the people living in the city of Gotham that a soul from Gotham would be gone each day until the day Batman reveals his identity. He treats all his “crime, infliction of pain, and murder as a joke-to mock Batman”. It is really unnerving to know that he takes away lives without any form of guilt, and treats it as a game. This further shows that he is really cruel, and deserves none of my sympathy.

However, I do sympathize him because he had a bad childhood, which his father abused him and caused the permanent revolting smile on his face, but that does not mean that he should revenge all his hatred on the innocent. Those are just excuses. I also feel sorry for him as he has a pregnant wife, and being “desperate to support her”, he agrees to help two criminals break into a plant. But, only to be informed that his wife and unborn child had died in a household accident. Overcame by anguish, he tries to back out, but to no avail. Once they entered the plant, they were caught immediately and in his panic to escape from Batman, he jumps into a vat of chemicals, only to find out that it caused his skin to be permanently bleached white, hair dyed fluorescent green, and a permanent hideous red lips on his face. All these events drived him completely insane, resulting to the birth of the Joker.

He must have really hated Batman, if it was not for escaping him that he looked unsightly. However, he should not blame him as he was the one at fault in the first place. For all his wrong-doings, I think that he should not be forgived at all, not to say, to the extend of being symphathized.