[spaul3003]

Torture is typically a default. Protagonist doesn't have time to play by the rules, so he tortures info out of the person. Hollywood loves to show that torture is the only way to get info out of someone when it's actually not only a war crime, but the least reliable method.

Torture sucks ass. It's been shown countless times that it doesn't work, and is literally less effective than just fucking talking to a person. When someone is torturing you, you will say whatever you think they want to hear to make it stop, regardless of the truth, so any information gained through torture is immediately suspect.

Despite this, because of movies, the general public believes that torture is effective, which makes it easier for politicians to justify the use of torture, as an acceptable damage for the greater good.

[olichan12]

Both sides of any conflict do the exact same shit. We massacred plenty of German POWs during WWII, but we get a pass, because lulz we're the good guys. If the German Army had won, it would the same, but they'd be the good guys, so everything they did would get a pass.

The movies just whitewash everything, and make it simple, because it's easier to do that. Telling the whole story takes too long, which is what books are for. Plus, they have to sensationalize evil, so that they can sell more tickets. That's why they portray torture as a good thing, when it's just torture/cruelty for the sheer pleasure of torture.

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I forgot to say: TPTB want us to support torture, because they already do that, and they believe that they lose their guilt from committing torture if we support it. That's why the movies portray it as a good thing.

[ninjaanon89]

Ocean's 11 - 13. They the good guys (thieves/con-artist) are stealing. Like Robin Hood.

[Kauletz von Saus]

Star wars - The Rebels , also olichan u stupid wtf

[Andrew Dwyer]

The atomic bomb on the Japanese

[lucairo]

Star wars - The Rebels