Protagonist-Centered Morality: Difference between revisions

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:: '''The Mouth of Sauron:''' I am a herald and ambassador, and may not be assailed!

:: '''Gandalf:''' Where such customs are in use, it is also customary for heralds to speak with less insolence.

** Also, diplomatic niceties of behavior between warring nations is a mutual obligation and not a unilateral one. The standard penalty for refusing to honor ambassadors is the total severing of diplomatic relations, and the standard penalty for not honoring an enemy's surrender is the enemy now being allowed to kill you out of hand even if ''you'' try to surrender. Since this is exactly what Sauron is planning to do to the armies of the West ''anyway''... well, let's just say the Mouth really should have known what he was in for.

* ''[[300|Three Hundred]]'' is full of this, mostly due to the [[Unreliable Narrator]]. The Spartans are touted as a just and free society, even though they're shown in the movie to hurl imperfect babies off cliffs, kill messengers, and toss boys into the wilderness as a rite of passage.

** Their so-called "just and free society" didn't preclude slavery. Leonidas at one point also makes fun of some Athenians for being homosexuals, when [[Real Life]] Spartans actually preferred the company of other men to women, whom they considered to be unworthy and only useful as [[Baby Factory|breeding stock]].