Except Hawkins literally let them go because Law was going to kill them to get to him if he didn't accept. Oda clearly let that be known.
He let them go because he had no choice but to listen to Law’s threat and take it seriously, lest he follow through. This is why it was framed as the “threats of a man who has nothing to lose.” The moment he watched Hawkins cut himself and the cut show up on the arm of one of his crew, he submitted.
No shit no one wants to kill their crewmates as their first option, you want to give him an award for that? The fact that it was even an option shows how vastly different Law is from WB.
It was never an option for Law. He said it in order to get Hawkins to relinquish his life dolls. Law was never going to kill his crew.
Lmfao first of all, you didn't say anything to counter that he disagreed with Luffy. He did not like Luffy feeding them, period. There was no omission, stop making stuff up.
Second of all are we talking about the same Law who did nothing to stop the children from suffering and was indifferent to CC experimenting on them as long as he benefited from the situation? Now that's an omission.
Law isn't some saint, not even close to WB in that regard, stop forcing this weird narrative.
No, I didn’t, because it was irrelevant. You said Law doesn’t protect and secure the weak. This was a lie. I showed Law’s actions contradicting his words and what you said.
Yes, this was the same Law that we’re talking about. It doesn’t negate that he does protect and secure the weak, when he wants to. Which is no different than Whitebeard. For instance, Whitebeard knew the homeland of his friend was under Kaido’s rule for two decades following the death of Oden, where was Whitebeard protecting the people Oden cared about, given that he knew what type of man Kaido was? When he realized something was wrong with the situation surrounding Teach, as he admitted watching Ace leave, where was he trying to stop Ace and getting justice for Thatch on his own? Where was Whitebeard when, knowing the type of person Big Mom was, she started instituting a lifespan tax on her citizens? And Whitebeard probably knew all about the World Government, hell he heard the story from Roger himself, why did he not move against the World Government and protect all of the slaves? Perhaps because it didn’t benefit him, as you alleged of Law?
None of them are saints. Whitebeard wasn’t, hell Luffy and his crew aren’t. They worked with slavers on Sabaody, for instance. It happens. They’re pirates.
As predicted "I'm sure you're going to come up with a response talking about more irrelevant similarities, and how the differences I mentioned don't really exist. Save yourself the time."
As stated prior, “ Don’t sit there and condescend to me about parallels and “irrelevant similarities” when you have to invent bullshit to disprove it. I never said everything has to be one hundred percent similar, only that Law and Whitebeard are similar and pointed those similarities out. Luffy is a clear parallel to Roger, and neither one of them are exactly the same as the other.”
To expand on this; it's a common theme among OP characters. Not just Law and Whitebeard, also Luffy, Ace, Big Mom, Doffy, the list goes on and on.
This is derived from the orphan theme of the series. There are more orphans than you can count on 50 hands.
Also the absence of mother figures is very prominent in general.
True, but I’d contend that with Law and a Whitebeard, it’s more explicit than others. For example, you mention Ace. Ace didn’t want a family, he wanted to know if it was ok for him to exists. He found that answer in a family. Luffy wanted to not be lonely as a kid. He found the answer in a family. They never sought the family, they just found it.
Whitebeard sought the family, that was his goal. Law sought to join the family he lost, found a family, and then wanted to keep it, then wanted to avenge it after it was lost. I’d say that for Whitebeard and Law, family is more integral to them than anyone else.