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Especially when you’re holding knife to their throat or a gun to their head. No matter what has happened before, they will need to convince themselves that this is the only course of action. This is why the smart ass quip works so well. It’s both a discounting of the life in front of you, and
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A final determination that this person deserves death. It’s easier in fiction. There is a biological imperative that needs to be overcome in real life. Psychopaths don’t have that hurdle. So the quip let’s us still identify some humanity and morals in the protagonist.
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