Death as Set Dressing (Part I)

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Talking about the omnipresent phenomenon in fiction of having a huge spectacle of death and destruction at the hands of (or implicitly condoned by) the supposed heroes, framed in such a way the audience cheers for it, but the heroes have the audacity to moralize about the wrongness of killing only when it applies specifically to them and the people they personally know and care about.

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