Ok. Lets change your mind.
The reason people have the feeling that Punisher is a Supervillian. Is generally because they have limited knowledge of morality and ethics.
There are lots of people who will give you with absolute conviction lot of moral proselytization, but who have never studied the topic of good and evil
out side of Superman, Batman, Spidey, and Cap.
They will look at you stupidly when you start talking about Immanuel Kant, or David Hume, so I'm going to suggest Pyrrhonism is the real answer to the question at hand.
Pyrrhonism holds that good and evil do not exist by nature, meaning that good and evil do not exist within the things themselves. All judgments of good and evil are relative to the one doing the judging.
And most of us are judging from the position of ignorance... Ironic in the most idiotic time in the world where cultural relativism is at its highest, that almost no one even knows the word Pyrrhonism.
I'm assuming that most people slept through first year philosophy, much less went beyond that in school or cared enough to self study on the topic.
Only the most MORALLY NAIVE people believe that all killing is wrong. That being said... not all of it is right and moral, but the problem with view typically lies in you.
You are no more right, you have no more moral authority than the people in countries that cut a mans hand off when he steals something. The idea that "HE KILLS the BAD GUYS" is just as morally naive as "NEVER KILL, ROBIN!", is the same "type" of naivety as the old west's quote "He needed a killin".
You, or your family, since you're on a computer debating comics are
probably in the top earners in the world. Very protected by the society you grew up in, never had to boil water to keep out parasites never
had to kill anything to eat.
Therefore... the morals most of us are using (unless they endured some great hardship or tragedy) are set to: what would likely be looked at as:
Princess morality. Abhor that which you think is "Icky" or makes you "Feel bad, man". . .
Most of use are set to that, because we've NEVER had to make a daily life or death decision, and hardly had any hardships at all compared to the OTHER portion of people in the world.
The truth is. If youre in the western world. Then "YOU" operate under a legal system that is broken. Most of us KNOW its broken. Yet, simply lack the "Power" and mostly the "Motivation" to do anything about it.
Wealth buys you more justice, Race, religion, gender, determine often just how much justice you are likely to get at ANY given moment.
So super heroes are every-single-one products of the fact that the "SYSTEM" doesn't work.
Especially, in comics where there are Persons of Mass Destruction, and one person, is more powerful that the military might of your entire country. Yet people still
call 9-11 when Electro for example shows up at the bank.
Even if we go by comic book morality this thread is obviating the obvious answer:
The punisher is an Anit-hero which is even is a commentary on "Methods" and how they matter when it comes to Costumed vigilantism.
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TL;DR: The punisher isn't a
Super-Hero.
Most of us don't understand morality very; we ignored it in school; and were raised with the morality of a disney princess ourselves, so it reinforces our ignorance.
The hate he gets from people stem from moral rigidity, and who want to think the version of good and evil they use is the only/undisputed version.
The Punisher isn't a "Villain" either. He's an
Anit-hero. These are words that have meaning in our language. Especially, in the comic book medium.
So we should at least hold the traits and characteristics of each up to the light when making such a claim. Instead of "... the feeling" he give each of us individually.