South Korean to Airdrop The Interview in North

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22. I'm sorry, but I see no humor in the idea of a movie about assassinating

the real head of state of a country, even when I deplore that person. Our own leaders are always at risk, and I just don't think it is cute to validate such an idea in popular media, especially in a country like our own, where so many violent sociopaths are armed to the teeth and continually whipped into a frenzy of hatred agaipinst our president--and *any* public liberal or Democratic leader.

First off, our country is frighteningly violent in many ways, and assassination has been used to remove our own leaders on several occasions. I don't approve of anything that seems to validate that approach to dealing with other nations or their nasty leaders. I even disapproved when a film was made about assassinating W, despite my complete detestation of the fool and his henchmen.

Besides, I am pretty sure this movie is not very good, so it should be allowed to sink or swim--probably sink--on its own merits, or lack thereof, not get propped up by all this "patriotic" propaganda. The film should probably never have been made, for both artistic and ethical reasons. No, I don't think our media should kowtow to threats by surrendering the right to free expression of ideas, but I also think the situation should not have arisen in the first place. It's not as though the script was so impressive that its brilliance outweighed any ethical concerns they might have had about seeming to promote political assassination.

Just as that stupid film that led to the riots surrounding the whole Benghazi debacle should never have been made, so, too, should the script for this one have been tossed on the junk pile. If "artists" are going to push the ethical boundaries so far, they should at least be doing so in the service of something with a modicum of artistic value.