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Robotbeat on March 8, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Modern action films fetishize the body even as the...

Does violence in movies lead to more support for foreign intervention, I wonder?

josephg on March 8, 2021 [–]

There was a case a few years ago where a US federal judge refused to outlaw torture in case there was a “24 type situation”. (24 was a popular tv show a few years ago in which the main character regularly tortures people for information, to protect America.)

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