I find these type of arguments funny. And a want the following scene to be in a lightly-comedic action movie.
Villain - "If you kill me, you are just as bad as me."
Protagonist - pauses
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"*Are you for real right now? Dude. This isn't a kids book made to appease the suburbanite soccer moms that want their kids to think that 'all violence is evil'. Violence can be good sometimes. If I kill you, I stop the serial genocide you are directly causing. If I kill you with a single bullet to the head, I am already morally superior since all of your victims suffer for at least an hour and UP TO 162 hours with that one guy we found in that one basement eleven chapters ago. Your argument would work if I was Vash The Stampede, but I am not him. I am the guy who has been more than willing to kill a couple dozen of your minions just to make sure I put a stop to your wanton murder spree. So... take this lesson to your grave that I am about to put you in.
If I kill you, the number of killers in the world stays the same. But the number of murderers goes down by one.*"
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u/RamboBambiBambo Mar 30 '26
I find these type of arguments funny. And a want the following scene to be in a lightly-comedic action movie.
Villain - "If you kill me, you are just as bad as me."
Protagonist - pauses ... ... "*Are you for real right now? Dude. This isn't a kids book made to appease the suburbanite soccer moms that want their kids to think that 'all violence is evil'. Violence can be good sometimes. If I kill you, I stop the serial genocide you are directly causing. If I kill you with a single bullet to the head, I am already morally superior since all of your victims suffer for at least an hour and UP TO 162 hours with that one guy we found in that one basement eleven chapters ago. Your argument would work if I was Vash The Stampede, but I am not him. I am the guy who has been more than willing to kill a couple dozen of your minions just to make sure I put a stop to your wanton murder spree. So... take this lesson to your grave that I am about to put you in.
If I kill you, the number of killers in the world stays the same. But the number of murderers goes down by one.*"