Code of Honor (Honesty), point value?

[malloyd]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

<shrug> If there are "civil rights laws" that impact on what Superman usually does these days, I'm unaware of them.

He routinely violates people's privacy with his super senses. He falsely imprisons people by tying them up and leaving them. He uses excessive force (the only thing that prevents comic book heroes from being mass murderers is the comic convention that knocking people unconscious is not life threatening).

It's not necessary to be an authority to be sued for civil rights violation. Lots of criminals are, it's a way to get cases that miscarry in state criminal court into a federal civil one.