In one of my recent posts i talked about bad guys having morals. What kind of morals or "honor code" would they have to make us cheer them on in a film? If this honor code we can agree with then why doesn't everyone live according to that code and rob a bank? Especially if the money taken was going to help others beside just yourself. I guess what I am really getting at is what is different between these "Good" bad guys and us that keeps us from following their example?
posted by Sage at 1:56 PM
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From my point of view the bad guys always do something for selfish reasons. Lex Luthor wants power, the Joker wants to kill, Brainiac wants to collect the knowledge of all worlds to horde knowledge for himself. Our culture doesn't like selfishness, we praise people who are willing to put themselves in harms way to help others. One example that comes to my mind is Robin Hood--he's a thief. He steals money from rich people and any way that you look at it he is stealing and that is wrong, "Thou shalt not steal" but he does it for the right reasons. He is fighting a selfish administration which seeks only to increase its own holding in the world and thus we praise his efforts.
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