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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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[Arkham City] What was the general public's reaction about Arkham City?
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Gotham is menaced by crime and villainy. Terrorist attacks, muggings, mass murder, brainwashing, burglary, poisoning sprees. When you've seen the flowers in the park come to life and try to kill picnickers, the toys beneath your Christmas tree unwrap themselves and try to stab you, you realise that no facet of life in this city is untouched by crime. Its citizens aren't *paranoid*, but most can't go to the office without wondering if today will be another day when the earth is shaken by another bomb blast, the bridges closed, the trains cancelled, the skyline marred by rising smoke from another act of mass destruction.

When you can't get a hotdog without wondering if the Condiment King is about to leap out and threaten you with dangerously overseasoned guac, it changes your attitude. Hardens you. Little by little, people lose their mercy. The idea that criminals are made by poor circumstance or mental illness, products of a salted field, breaking the law only as a last resort in a life that's given them no good choices - all of this fades away behind the repeated mantra, "Tough on crime." People want to feel safe, before they can afford the luxury of empathy and a social conscience.

Arkham Asylum failed at creating peace. Rehabilitation? Well, some people are obviously beyond help. The mad ones. The masked ones. Prisons like Blackgate? Overcrowded breeding grounds - all they do is make people worse before letting them back out on the streets, *if* they don't break out first.

Just lock them up and throw away the key. Put them somewhere else. Higher walls. Thicker bars.

The mayor's new Arkham City initiative? Nothing else has worked. Why not give it a try? Santa Prisca had good results with their island prison. What's the worst that could happen?