Strawman Has a Point/Other Media: Difference between revisions

* In almost any given story where the hero argues that [[If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him]], the point of the opposing side — usually that the ends justify the means and that taking one murderous life to save many innocent ones is ''nothing'' like taking many innocent lives for selfish reasons — will come off as this to a fair amount of people.

** It's also difficult to get audiences to condemn a fictional hero for acting like how we expect police officers to act IRL - i.e., be willing to shoot the bad guy if it's necessary to keep him from shooting civilians. There is an obvious tendency to take examples of legitimate authority figures acting in legality and with good faith as, well, legitimate role models for behavior.

 

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