How exactly does making hard decisions equate to losing one's heart? Cyclops isn't running around gleefully sending people to their deaths, he's doing what he can to save the biggest number of lives.
The Cyclops from those old comics was created in a time period when comic books very rarely dealt with death. Team members never died, no matter how slim the odds of survival were. The X-Men always did the right thing, and everything always turned out fine in the end (although the world still always managed to find a reason to keep hating and fearing them). That's completely unrealistic.
The books that Marvel puts out deal with more complicated moral issues. Do we really want to see superheroes always find a way out of impossible scenarios? Anyone with any military experience knows that no mission is completely devoid of risk. Deaths and injuries will happen.
Cyclops, along with the rest of the Marvel Universe, is being written a bit more realistically these days. The characters are stuck in a world where their actions have severe consequences, and I'm liking that for the most part.
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