Friday, July 22, 2011

Revenge?

I'm very disturbed that movies and even TV shows are doing themes and plots showing revenge as a good idea.

That's scary. Encouraging people to take the law into their own hands is seriously wrong. Killing someone who killed a friend or family member of yours makes you exactly like the person who did the killing in the first place. Worse, since revenge includes hate.

A hero of a movie going after the cops and judge that put him in prison for something he didn't do, it just proves prison is where he belongs. DUH

Why would revenge be worth going to prison and then being killed yourself in revenge be a good idea?

The ignorance of some of the human race never fails to amaze me (or sadden and disgust me.) I'm trying hard not to judge people, but hell...when did naive come to mean stupid?


Aren't gangs bad enough with their revenge killings? Young people recruited into gangs, younger children of rival gang members plus innocent by-standers are getting killed for no reason other than a false idea that violence is a fun game.

Let's not add the general population to revenge killings.

The revenge I do approve of is honest law enforcement clapping handcuffs on a bad guy and tossing him into jail for trial. I do believe in the legal system including it's flaws. Some bad guys do get away without punishment and some innocent people get locked up, but by-passing the whole system is not the way to fight injustice.

Justice can sometimes be unjust. But we need to get rid of the idea that revenge is a good idea. One person or a gang of people do not have the right to decide how justice should be carried out.

I never used to believe in "evil", thinking it was just an "absence of good". Now I'm pretty sure evil exists and it's not just wrong, illegal, or bad choices. It's...well...it's evil.

To stop evil, stop thinking violent revenge is a fine idea.

And stop watching those damn movies and television shows based on revenge.

Thank you.

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