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<blockquote data-quote="John Morrow" data-source="post: 2151543" data-attributes="member: 27012">I should also point out that in the course of the comedy movie Trading Places, a villain essentially suffers this punishment for crimes far less evil than blowing up a planet and it's played up for laughs.&nbsp; While there are plenty of valid reasons for being bothered and shocked by this sort of thing, it's not uncommon for movies to play on the fact that plenty of people easily fall into the line of thought that villains deserve whatever they get.&nbsp; People are even willing to laugh at it.&nbsp; In fact, James Bond long maintained a PG rating by having James Bond crack jokes as bad guys died all sorts of horrible deaths.I think that mindset can be summed up by a saying of someone I used to work with.&nbsp; &quot;Shouldn't 'a' been there.&quot;&nbsp; Basically, if they weren't doing Evil things and weren't working for the bad guys, nothing horrible would have happened to them.&nbsp; I don't personally agree but I think quite a few people have a sense of Karma that does work like that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John Morrow, post: 2151543, member: 27012"] I should also point out that in the course of the comedy movie [u]Trading Places[/u], a villain essentially suffers this punishment for crimes far less evil than blowing up a planet and it's played up for laughs. While there are plenty of valid reasons for being bothered and shocked by this sort of thing, it's not uncommon for movies to play on the fact that plenty of people easily fall into the line of thought that villains deserve whatever they get. People are even willing to laugh at it. In fact, James Bond long maintained a PG rating by having James Bond crack jokes as bad guys died all sorts of horrible deaths. I think that mindset can be summed up by a saying of someone I used to work with. "Shouldn't 'a' been there." Basically, if they weren't doing Evil things and weren't working for the bad guys, nothing horrible would have happened to them. I don't personally agree but I think quite a few people have a sense of Karma that does work like that. [/QUOTE]

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