It's inspiring TO YOU, if you're in the implied audience and the story is told in such a way that you easily identify with the guy If not -- if you're, say, a foreigner who can't help but see Superman as an American symbol -- it's pretty fucking scary to see that thought process
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It's just, like Sure, if I try to rub your nose in every negative moral consequence your choices have, after a certain point I'm being an asshole We all need a little bit of obliviousness to get through the day But it's not a good look to be *that* allergic to knowing things
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Like someone who performatively goes "I'm an empath, I can't stand to see or hear or even think about a living thing in pain If there's an animal dying on TV you have to turn it off" "But do you eat meat?" "Yes but I could NEVER kill an animal myself"
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Also why most anti-war films fail They try to be anti-war but pro-troop, and thus are open to being used as propaganda, because the enemy must be bad I can't remember an anti-war movie that actually humanises the enemy.
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Depending on your definition of "the enemy" Letters From Iwo Jima did a decent job.
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