I was thinking about how MoS and S#32 have put Clark in similar situations and the more I thought about how DC Rebirth handled it, the more bothered I've become. I might be misreading something, but the issue implied that Superman should let Lois die in order to save his moral codex rather than killing Deathstroke in order to save a much more decent human being. I don't know, I think this whole "saving morality above everything else" is becoming a sick obsession that doesn't allow super heroes to make difficult (but right) decisions and live with it.
In Man of Steel Clark did the right thing by saving innocent human lives at the cost of one kryptonian genocidal maniac, but Superman #32 would have him rather let those humans die and try to find a "better" solution to handling a villain of the story.
Was anyone else borthered by how Superman #32 handled Deathstroke tempting Superman to kill in order to save a life and he refused and Lois was ok if she died, but Deathstroke would live just for Superman to find a way in order to lock him up according to the law?
Maybe I'm just seeing wrong implications in that issue, but this is exactly what I saw the moment I read it back when it was released and now when I decided to read it again in order to try prove myself wrong.
Should Superman keep his "not killing" thing at the cost of innocent lives? Or maybe he shouldn't be put in this kind of situations ever because he can't be allowed to make this kind of decisions? Because as MoS reaction shows, a lot of people would rather have the latter option.