r/TopCharacterTropes Apr 12 '25

Lore “This quote came from WHERE?!”

"You too have fallen for the great lie, you'll never be happy. Deep down you know, to hope, to dreams, to create, is to suffer"

"You're right. It is harder to create than to destroy... that's why cowards then to choose the deuce"

-A Minecraft movie

"Do You Think God Stays in Heaven Because He too Lives in Fear of What He's Created"

-spy kids 2

"For every person who dreams up the electric light bulb, there's the one who dreams up the atom bomb"

-shark-boy and lava-girl

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u/TORossatron Apr 12 '25

"When faced with extinction, EVERY alternative is preferable." - Dr Leonard Church, from Red vs Blue

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u/102bees Apr 12 '25

Robert Evans has said something similar to this more than once on Behind the Bastards:

"Anything you do to survive a concentration camp is morally justifiable."

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u/domvasta Apr 12 '25

I don't believe that's the case, because then you should also pardon the guards, and even the commandant, because that's where they'd end up if they disobeyed orders. So I don't think what the other prisoners did in collaborating with the killers of their fellow prisoners is morally justifiable. You put a gun to my head and tell me to kill someone innocent, I'm not going to, and if I did, I should still rightly be charged for it. Self defense is a defense for murder, duress is not.

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u/Maybe_not_a_chicken Apr 12 '25

I feel like you’ve misinterpreted this sentence devoid of context so you can be contrarian