Why Do I play City of Heros?

Well, thats really not a terribly hard question, although some of you may wonder...
Firstly its FUN. I mean really, you get to FLY! You can make yourself look however you want, and you're in a world with a lot of fun people who can fly, jump,whatever, and all the female toons (thats what they call the characters you play in the game) are HOT...never a bad thing :).
The lines are pretty clear. You know who 'us' and 'them' are. You know who's 'bad' and who's 'good' and you don't have to spend time trying to figure out the grey areas and stuff.
ALL The bad guys are ultimately defeatable. Even the biggest baddest guy in the game can be defeated, if you've got 50 or so folks all working together as a team.....
Real life...its just not like that. There are many many problems that are totally unbeatable, there are so many grey areas, It's so hard to figure out 'right' from 'wrong'.... Especially when there are folks who you think are right in some ways but oh so wrong in others..........

So much easier to log on, build your toon and go knock around some freakshows or some counsel or some clockwork bad guys.....

And the folks you meet.... They speak your language, they understand, they like to play too.. It's nice to feel that there is a place where you can be radically different in so many ways yet agree on some simple things: Work together, beat up bad guys, and get better at it so we can beat up TOUGHER bad guys... Help out strangers and make friends.....
There are a lot of folks there, I don't know what they do, I don't know if they're male, female, black/white/republican/democrat/whatever... but we get on, play together (sometimes for hours) and we have a good time doing it......

Is this such a bad thing?