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Date: 2017-09-05 12:30 pm (UTC)This cements them as good guys, right? I mean, this is a keynote of American Exceptionalism -- competence outweighs principles; the mission outweighs the cost of completing it; the "right thing" to do is to always let the end justify the means because real heroes "have a job to do".
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Date: 2017-09-05 02:49 pm (UTC)It's only in movies and TV shows where the heroes don't have to face situations where they have to make compromises.
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Date: 2017-09-05 08:04 pm (UTC)In "The Square Triangle" a woman who is having an affair, and the man she's cheating with, plots to murder her husband. But they accidentally kill an alien from a downed UFO instead. After they're interrogated by SHADO, the secret alien fighting organisation in the series, they're given SHADO's amnesia drug, which erases their memories of the last 24 hours. SHADO boss Ed Straker realises they'll try again, but knows there is no way to warn the police or the potential victim without compromising SHADO security. Footage during the closing credits shows the woman at her husband's grave, followed by her walking away to join her lover.
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Date: 2017-09-05 08:29 pm (UTC)It's certainly fair to admit that the USA certainly didn't create this characteristic, nor that it isn't present, to a certain extent, in the statecraft toolkit of all governments everywhere.
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Date: 2017-09-05 08:49 pm (UTC)It's all well and good to be judgemental when you don't have to worry about facing that choice for real. Sometimes your only choices lie between bad and worse.
Note, however, there's a difference between this sort of thing and the torture-porn justifications for actively doing something evil for morally questionable reasons.
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Date: 2017-09-05 02:56 pm (UTC)Incidentally, it's also how I could see it working in real life, just as a lot of other interfaces these days are based on gaming designs.