Rorschach’s mental notes on every little crime suggest that he obsesses over order and justice. However, Rorschach’s view of crime and punishment, good and evil, is notably angled towards small offenses. He wants to punish vandals, illicit lovers, or poor people selling drugs, yet he never questions what made those people do those things. That is, he lacks any understanding of the environment that causes people to commit those “crimes,” and so he remains blind to much broader questions of morality and who, exactly, should be punished for society’s ills. Additionally, the survivor’s corpse raft symbolizes how even someone who feels like a hero may be held aloft by other people’s deaths.