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CrazySugarFreakBoy!

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HH

Subj: Not quite as absolute.
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 at 05:19:48 pm EDT (Viewed 484 times)
Reply Subj: Always an exception
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 at 04:33:16 pm EDT (Viewed 7 times)

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    ... "Stopping villains" does not necessarily equate to "law enforcement," especially if your definition of "villains" includes at least some of the folks who, in a very real sense, ARE the law. \:\)


That's true. But what happens when they're stopped. "Stopping" villains really equates to either jailing or destroying them. It's the law or murder.

To my mind, "stopping" villains can simply mean removing their power bases and ability to function. See also: The fate that befell Andy Griffith's "Lonesome" Rhodes character, at the end of Elia Kazan's A Face in the Crowd.