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[Batman] Would Batman's no-kill rule been different had his parents been tortured to death?

Say similar to how Dick got tortured by Joker, Batman had to witness his parents get the same treatment. But before the killer could finish him off, the cops show up and rescue Bruce as the killer is cuffed away. Waynes are pronounced dead. 

Does this change Bruce's ideologies as Batman? Does Batman now excessively torture his enemies? Maybe as Bruce Wayne he hires the most sadistic doctors to run Arkham and then as Batman he sends his rogue gallery there to get tortured endlessly? 

And heck, maybe he kills the Joker after he finds Dick Grayson dead. 

Basically, does the prolonged and excruciating death of the Wayne's change how Batman would deal with criminals?
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Batman's no killing rule ultimately comes from a desire to not be as bad as the man who killed his parents. It's more a trauma response then a moral code in the conventional sense.  


So if anything, it's the opposite- the more sadistic Joe Chill was, the higher standards batman has to hit to not be like him. A batman who's parents were tortured to death might well be an outright pacifist, unwilling to cause pain and trying to talk his villains out of it. To him, torture is the thing the Evil Man Who Took His Parents did, just like killing is to canon bruce, and he'll go to the same extreme lengths to avoid it.