Where as Ulysses reveled in his own cleverness at the expense of others to save his crew, people like the cast of the show Leverage revel in their own cleverness because it's revenge on the wealthy for the crime of inequity.
Modern 'heroes' wholesale butcher, rob, cheat, lie and do anything they please as long as it's in the interests of the social gods our new society worships instead of the old pantheon.
Those are the kinds of 'messages' we need in our movies apparently.
Killing people because your government tells you to is wrong.
Killing someone because they're richer than you are is okay!
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“people like the cast of the show Leverage”
“revel in their own cleverness because it's revenge on the wealthy for the crime of inequity.”
Not Robin Hood just robbing the rich because they’re rich.
“Killing people because your government tells you to is wrong.”
“Killing someone because they're richer than you are is okay!”
In order to confuse you guys even more, I had a look-see, and his profile is full of very sexed up MLP anthro art.
Okay that might not actually be confusing any more considering the well documented proclivities of guys like him.
Killing people is always wrong, wether you are ordered to do so by a (corrupt) government or wanting revenge or just because they’re rich, it’s all bad. You cannot take it back, after all. Of course, killing someone in self-defense is far less wrong than murdering dozens of children, for example.
However, actually trying to take down white-collar criminals or corrupt cops or evil politicians without killing them to get some level of closure for their victims does sound pretty justified to me. It’s not just because they’re richer than you, it because of HOW they acquired their wealth.
Also, on a side note, if someone gave me the Trolley problem and I HAD to choose between letting Muskrat, Bezos, & Trump, etc. die or murdering ONE middle-aged poor person, I’d choose the former (the lesser evil) without question. Not because they’re rich, but because they’re Assholes, Criminals, and Parasites. And I’d rather have their blood on my hands than that of an innocent.
@Sasha #260680
Depends on how you look at it. One episode, a guy was trying to steal a transplant heart that was earmarked for ,IIRC, an 8 year old boy. Villain accused Nathan ’You’ve killed me.’ Nathan replied, “God killed you, I just made it stick.”
Modern 'heroes' wholesale butcher, rob, cheat, lie and do anything they please as long as it's in the interests of the social gods our new society worships instead of the old pantheon.
Robin Hood in its modern form is from the 19th century. Arsène Lupin, beginning of the 20th. The fucking bible puts up Jael as a heroin for killing a king.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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