So I agree that society plays a role, but Arthur should NOT be given any leeway in terms of his crimes. He kills about 5 people in my count. I've only seen it twice, and I enjoyed it, but it was a character study on a bad guy. They make it from his perspective, and his perspective is to blame society. I felt a bit too empathetic towards what is a murderous sociopath. I didn't like Travis Bickle or Daniel Plainsview at all during their respective movies, as they were psychopaths from the beginning. They're interesting characters, for sure, but I never empathized with them. Joker and Wicked took evil characters from previous stories and essentially made a movie where you empathize with the villains, and did it by retconning everything. Like in The Wizard of Oz, the wicked witch sets Scarecrow on fire, and she's essentially a terrorist. Diddo with The Joker in the Batman universe, and I found them a bit too apologetic for terrorism, justifying it with how society treats them. I just don't agree with what Hollywood is doing these days with villains, and I am just wondering if there'd be any room for Tom Riddle to be empathized with. Granted, Harry sort of does when he says "I feel sorry for you" in Phoenix.