Re: Superman: Defender of the American Way (of handling international diplomacy)
Most people would, yes. And then the people who wanted attention paid to their situation would need to do something extreme, to force people to not ignore them, and what's the easiest and most effective way to get attention paid to a cause? Pointing guns and taking hostages. And so on, and so forth...
(To be clear: I'm not supporting violence as a means of affecting political changes--but I can understand why people use it, and my feeling is that ignoring the people who use it makes the problem worse. One of the many reasons why superheroes, as much as I love them in the comics, wouldn't be very good at actual peacekeeping in the real world, in my opinion.)