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Aug. 6th, 2008 03:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trinityvixenSeeing as I've already posted one way in which desperate idiots are trying to justify torture, have an article about how the Bush administration tried to justify it.
We need to get new rubber bracelets made. WWJBD?
Another thing about that Sadly, No! thread: someone commented that, once upon a time, we blamed comic books for perverting/destroying the minds of children and bending them to lives of crime. I'm not sure if, given that those kids have grown up and are now using the Batman defense--"If Batman would do it, it's okay"--whether or not those alarmists were right.
Perhaps not. Perhaps it's just supreme irony that people who never would have read comics are using them and other forms of popular fiction to justify their behavior--behavior decidedly worse than anything "juvenile delinquents" ever did because they read one too many stories by William Gaines...
We need to get new rubber bracelets made. WWJBD?
Another thing about that Sadly, No! thread: someone commented that, once upon a time, we blamed comic books for perverting/destroying the minds of children and bending them to lives of crime. I'm not sure if, given that those kids have grown up and are now using the Batman defense--"If Batman would do it, it's okay"--whether or not those alarmists were right.
Perhaps not. Perhaps it's just supreme irony that people who never would have read comics are using them and other forms of popular fiction to justify their behavior--behavior decidedly worse than anything "juvenile delinquents" ever did because they read one too many stories by William Gaines...
