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Originally Posted by El Pollo
There's something that Tommy Lee Jones said in Men In Black that struck me as surprisingly intuitive. I'm not one to normally find deep meaning in movie quotes or song lyrics, but this just seemed to stick out. Now I'm just paraphrasing here because I haven't seen the movie more than twice. But it was something along the lines of...
"People are dumb panicky animals. But the individual person is smart and capable of figuring things out."
So while on the whole, yeah, people bother me, too, it doesn't mean I think the individuals should suffer.
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But isn't the whole made up of individuals?
In this logic.. we would have to carefully select which "individuals" would should be allowed to not suck or be spared from a trajedy.