The question you ask yourself is; are you, personally, willing to be caught up in the wide net cast, and have your own life destroyed, in favor of the supposed overall “reigned in” crime?

Police forces aren’t efficient, especially under bad, unstable, unethical leadership. You’re given a license to shoot everyone in the room because someone suspects the killer might be inside… They aren’t. Let’s say MAYBE 50% of the people they are rounding up would have ended up in jail for justified reasons, and that’s probably extremely generous - And if you disagree with my estimated numbers, I’ll just accuse you of being a secret communist and have Mr. McCarthy blacklist you.

Famously, Pablo Escobar took down an entire commercial flight to get one perceived enemy on the plane, and that person ended up not even being on the flight…

So are you cool being on that plane, and dying a horrible death, for the chance at what you perceive as the greater good happening I your wake? That’s the question you ask.

“But that will make it cost prohibitive to own an SUV!!!”

Yes… Yes it will.

I’ve been surprised in recent years how much more smoking has subtly popped back up in media. Most times it’s also not in a way that applies to the plot or illuminates anything you didn’t already know about a character.

Also in sports, things like Nickelodeon getting so involved with the NFL for kids with cartoon recreations of games, etc. They are propping up a new generation of sports hero role models in people like Joe Burrow. For awhile, he’d be celebrating all their victories with trashy cigar parties in the locker room, as like, a kid in his early 20s who just got slimmed by Nickelodeon a few days before?

It’s been pretty odd to see the resurgence in media in the last decade plus.

It’s really just all held together by such a thin thread isn’t it? The hate has never gone away, it just goes out of style from time to time.

Yes, just a completely consistent series of platoon leaders who systemically “overstep authority”. These are fully and totally autonomous actions… that are culturally mandated. Why everyone is so upsets?