Batman Begins -- Batman refuses to kill a man to complete his training with the League of Shadows and instead blows up a building with several League of Shadows people in it and killing them.
Actually, in most Superheroes comics and films: the hero commits countless crimes and still is seen as the hero, in the end. Most of those crimes are forms of murder. Man of Steel is my favorite of those. Superman fights Zod in the city, breaking buildings, crumbling parts of buildings etc., and the rational mind would conclude that many people died from falling debris, and buildings being torn apart but when Zod threatens to kill one lone family, well, that's going too far -- what about all the people who died before then that Superman contributed to?
A teacher commits statutory rape, and gets prison time and this movie is actually promoting pedophilia even though no pedophelia happened in the film?
Oh, but there's incest! Did you know there are 22 US states that allow first cousins to marry and/or have sex legally? Only 5 out of 50 consider it an actual crime.
There are three states who outlaw sibling marriages but do not make it a crime for siblings to have sexual relations with each other as long as they are at age of consent (18).
Hell, New Jersey (last I read) allowed father/daughter mother/son to have consensual sex as long as both were 18+.
One either finds such things moral or immoral. However, in the US such laws are more recent than many think. In Tennessee, in the early to mid 20th Century, it was legal for adult men (mostly 30+) to marry 12 year old girls.
The singer, Jerry Lee Lewis, married his 13 year old cousin in the late 1950s.
Some states currently have what is called "Romeo and Juliet" laws. That's where an adult, between a certain amount of years (determined by the state) can have sex with those under 18 legally. That means, say, an 18 year old can legally have sex with a 14 or 13 year old, dependant on the one underage's birthdate.
Remember Mary Kay Letourneau? Female teacher had sex with her 12 year old student? She got six months (3 months suspended) and didn't have to register as a sex offender. The teacher in this fictional film got 30 years. Oh, but then Mary Kay got caught breaking parole with her teenage lover (at that point) and served 7 years. Not for commiting statutory rape but for breaking parole. Of course then after getting out of prison she married her student. If you think about it: reality is worse than fiction. I mean, this film gives the message you can get 30 years. Reality says different, though.
-Nam
I am on the road less traveled...
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