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* HarsherInHindsight: This little exchange:
-->'''Hathaway:''' I want to see more of you in the lab.\\
-->'''Hathaway:''' I want to see more of you in the lab.\\
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* HarsherInHindsight: HarsherInHindsight:
** This little exchange:
-->'''Hathaway:''' --->'''Hathaway:''' I want to see more of you in the lab.\\
** This little exchange:
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* MemeticMutation: "'Rue the day'? Who talks like that?"
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** Speaking of Gabe Jarret, in this film he laughs off Laslo's concerns about the laser's usefulness by saying, "Let the engineers worry about it!" Ten years later in ''Film/Apollo13'' he'd play a NASA mission control guidance engineer ''very much'' worrying about how to help solve a problem.
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** Speaking of Gabe Jarret, in this film he laughs off Laslo's concerns about the laser's usefulness by saying, "Let the engineers worry about it!" figure out a use for it, that's not our concern!" Ten years later in ''Film/Apollo13'' he'd play a NASA mission control guidance engineer ''very much'' worrying concerned about how to help solve a problem.
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** Speaking of Gabe Jarret, in this film he laughs off Laslo's concerns about the laser's usefulness by saying, "Let the engineers worry about it!" Ten years later in ''Film/Apollo13'' he'd play a NASA mission control guidance engineer ''very much'' worrying about how to help solve a problem.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: This movie could only have been made in TheEighties, when the Strategic Defense Initiative was a pressing concern. Not to mention that computer technology has marched along quite significantly since then.
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** As pointed out, it could be an aversion to EsotericHappyEnding due to the fact the government wanted a reuseable high powered laser to use for their weapon. The laser self-destructed after firing just once (making it look like it wasn't going to be able to be used again), and that laser was fired at a house in front of a Senator and other eyewitnesses, which in turn would basically be made public.
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As satisfying as watching that argument being torn to shreds is, they pretty firmly establish that this is not an example.
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* StrawmanHasAPoint: At no point does any of the protagonists bother to exposit ''why'' it's so wrong to build a laser capable of vaporizing ground targets from space. They simply state that it is, and act on that basis.
** Hathaway lied to them and used them to build weapons. It was their tech and work and he stole it from them to use to kill people. They had a moral connection to that work and could not stand the idea of their work used to kill people.
** While the outer space treaty only specifically bans WMD, a terror weapon such as this would certainly be something to consider. Also, who needs justification, a lot of people are opposed to assassination.
** Even if building a death laser for the government is not wrong in and of itself, taking people who don't want to build a death laser for the government and tricking them into doing precisely that is unethical. If informed consent ain't informed, then it ain't consent.
** Hell, less than a minute into the film the CIA panel behind the creation of the laser openly admit that it is "immoral and unethical" and laugh about it. It's described as "useless" for warfare, and is instead a "peacetime weapon": it would be used for unauthorized CIA assassinations and operations that would be undertaken without input from any other agency or branch of the government / military. Even the president would be kept in the dark. It's even implied that one of the members of the panel discussing the weapon who objects to its creation and use out of fear that it will cause escalations in global tensions and warfare will be assassinated by his colleagues after he requests reassignment. The panel then moves on to watching a "film on blinding techniques." Within two minutes the film pretty clearly establishes why it's wrong to build the laser and the nefarious nature of those behind the creation of the weapon.
** Especially since the government got its "perfect peacetime weapon" anyway with unmanned attack drones, and they ''are'' causing the "massive escalation" the film warned of.
** Hathaway lied to them and used them to build weapons. It was their tech and work and he stole it from them to use to kill people. They had a moral connection to that work and could not stand the idea of their work used to kill people.
** While the outer space treaty only specifically bans WMD, a terror weapon such as this would certainly be something to consider. Also, who needs justification, a lot of people are opposed to assassination.
** Even if building a death laser for the government is not wrong in and of itself, taking people who don't want to build a death laser for the government and tricking them into doing precisely that is unethical. If informed consent ain't informed, then it ain't consent.
** Hell, less than a minute into the film the CIA panel behind the creation of the laser openly admit that it is "immoral and unethical" and laugh about it. It's described as "useless" for warfare, and is instead a "peacetime weapon": it would be used for unauthorized CIA assassinations and operations that would be undertaken without input from any other agency or branch of the government / military. Even the president would be kept in the dark. It's even implied that one of the members of the panel discussing the weapon who objects to its creation and use out of fear that it will cause escalations in global tensions and warfare will be assassinated by his colleagues after he requests reassignment. The panel then moves on to watching a "film on blinding techniques." Within two minutes the film pretty clearly establishes why it's wrong to build the laser and the nefarious nature of those behind the creation of the weapon.
** Especially since the government got its "perfect peacetime weapon" anyway with unmanned attack drones, and they ''are'' causing the "massive escalation" the film warned of.
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** Ast after Chris Knight feeds his fish and Lazlo peeks his head out the door, the newspaper clip on the wall appears to show a picture of [[Music/TheDoors Jim Morrison]] in the lower left corner. Creator/ValKilmer would later play Morrison in ''Film/TheDoors''.
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** Ast after Chris Knight feeds his fish and Lazlo peeks his head out the door, the newspaper clip on the wall appears to show a picture of [[Music/TheDoors Jim Morrison]] in the lower left corner. Creator/ValKilmer would later play Morrison in ''Film/TheDoors''.''Film/TheDoors1991''.
