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* ''[[The Outer Limits]]'' episode "Rule of Law" features an alien being put on trial for murdering a human. The prosecuting attorney is racist against aliens and pushes for an execution, but when everybody learns ''why'' the alien killed the guy ( {{spoiler|the guy smashed the alien's unhatched eggs with full knowledge of what they were}}), he sides with the protagonists. |
* ''[[The Outer Limits]]'' episode "Rule of Law" features an alien being put on trial for murdering a human. The prosecuting attorney is racist against aliens and pushes for an execution, but when everybody learns ''why'' the alien killed the guy ( {{spoiler|the guy smashed the alien's unhatched eggs with full knowledge of what they were}}), he sides with the protagonists. |
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* ''[[The X-Files]]'' has (given the set-up) quite a realistic example in "Our Town". Walter Chaco, {{spoiler|who led the town into the practice of serial killing and cannibalism of random people passing through for the purpose of keeping themselves youthful}} gives a rather heroic-sounding speech about the virtues of sticking together as a town and not harming each other. {{spoiler|His standards get him killed.}} |
* ''[[The X-Files]]'' has (given the set-up) quite a realistic example in "Our Town". Walter Chaco, {{spoiler|who led the town into the practice of serial killing and cannibalism of random people passing through for the purpose of keeping themselves youthful}} gives a rather heroic-sounding speech about the virtues of sticking together as a town and not harming each other. {{spoiler|His standards get him killed.}} |
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* ''[[Wild Boys]]'': Superintendent Fuller may be a [[Corrupt Hick]], but he does not tolerate men who hit women. |
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* In [[Law and Order SVU]], there's an episode where a guy breaks into a house and winds up finding kiddy porn pictures and reports them to the police anonymously. |
* In [[Law and Order SVU]], there's an episode where a guy breaks into a house and winds up finding kiddy porn pictures and reports them to the police anonymously. |
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** {{spoiler|it's happened a couple of times in the real world.}} |
** {{spoiler|it's happened a couple of times in the real world.}} |