[DreadBringer]

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Originally Posted by Mesnick

And if someone deliberately fixates on one aspect and ignores the other, then this is already a problem for the viewer. Plus, no child or adult bases their worldview on one weekly show. At least he has a life, games, other shows, finally. Even if Rider came out too one-sided, Sentai can always show the situation from the other side.

Not on one show, but there can be recurring stereotypes on media they fixate on that gives preconceived notions, wrong impressions, etc, even if they may follow one or few shows, and may hear about the others from memes that may feature reductive and wrong view based on stereotypes. For example, immediately judging a kind protagonist as forgiving any monsters without second thought (stereotype) when in actuality he does kill monsters out of necessity.

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Originally Posted by Mesnick

The study is frankly idiotic because it does not take into account the difference in the numerical ratio of heroes and villains. Obviously, due to the presence of armies of troupers, the villain faces more fights and the use of deadly weapons. By the way, for some reason I have complete confidence that the compilers did not take into account the actions of the villains? accomplices. Fuck it, and we lost the Cold War to these idiots!

For what your view so far, isn't that also "just their opinion" like what you said here? And that it's just them expressing their personal thoughts? I'd wonder where'd you draw a line at "people just expressing their thoughts", or dismissing their takes (even if I agree) like this.

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Originally Posted by Mesnick

But the world is built precisely on double standards. Alcohol and tobacco are the same drugs as cocaine (and the addiction to tobacco is even stronger), but they are allowed. For some, simply expressing an opinion online means the end of their career; and the other remains a saint after driving on sidewalks and shooting at passers-by. People can be praised and cursed for the same actions. Even the examples you cited are full of cases where this was justified and condemned by the same people. Civilized people agree that class injustice is bad, but for some reason they immediately declare all countries trying to create a classless society to be branches of hell and impose sanctions in order to make life there as difficult as possible.

Sure it happens a lot, but are those people above criticism? Like just because it's common and thus it should be normalized? They can be deemed as hypocrites to have different takes on similar stuff based on personal feelings, and perhaps even giving free pass or cheering on atrocities on the people/group they prefer (their "team"). And their words also shoulldn't be taken at face value, because those claiming branches of hell can just want to maintain their positions of power for the status quo they benefit from, but are expressing it in a socially acceptable way as a propaganda for people to follow their cause, not actually care about anyone.

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Originally Posted by Mesnick

That is, if there is a corrupt chief at the police station, then what is the fault of the honest police officers?

Nothing. My point is about how same even would be perceived based on the show's genre, basing on your example. If it's lighter show then cheer for others to take down the corrupt chief and restore police glory, but if it's in darker show then people may blame the honest cops for being "unknowingly an accomplice" to the chief. It's my point about the double standard of exact same event based on light or dark show. I agree with honest police not having faults, and the perception of it or similar stuff happening in darker shows should be the same as the lighter one.

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Originally Posted by Mesnick

In any case, I prefer characters to laugh rather than cry.

This is the exact root of repressing darker emotions. Because it's prefered to see people happy and laugh, they'd shame people for feeling sad or angry, and the society pressuring them so they'd just be happy repressing their true feelings, potentially turning them into tickling time bomb. And to those who are being sa dfor long time, or even holding back for having fun, it'd be better if they try to address their emotions and feelings and not just force them be happy, like being understanding to like, perhaps their paranoia for not having fun (e.g. it won't last long). Toxic positivity is a case when someone's advice dismisses their feelings and just force them to be positive. And I can prefer if that there's a tragedy happening, the characters react appropriately/naturally to not get over their predicaments easily, even if they may be sad for long time, and emphasize how bad those tragedy are, not sugarcoating it (which may happen in lighter shows to preserve its "happy" nature).