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Famously, in the past, in popular media, only bad guys used torture. After 9/11 and the show 24, the good guys started doing it more and more frequently. It’s a
by gentleman11 7y ago
Famously, in the past, in popular media, only bad guys used torture. After 9/11 and the show 24, the good guys started doing it more and more frequently. It’s an awful societal norm
- jobigoud 7y agoI'm pretty sure this is recency bias. Remember the TV show "The pretender"? (1996-2000). It was fairly formulaic and every single episode ended up with Jarod, the protagonist, finding out the bad guy and putting him in a convoluted setup of psychological torture (usually threatening their life or their family in the same way they had killed the innocent person) until they admitted the crime.