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* ''Literature/TheGreatDivorce'':
** Only the pure, mindlessly faithful will survive.
** [[LonersAreFreaks Loners]] deserve Hell.
** If you hold a drug that can instantaneously and permanently cure a raving madman of all his delusions, but he wants you nowhere near him due to his delusional belief you’re part of the AncientConspiracy crafted entirely to torture him, it would be entirely immoral for you to administer the drug to him in his sleep because doing so would violate his freely willed choice to remain seriously mentally diseased for the remainder of his life.
** Everyone you don’t like is just a karen, and as such has no concept of EnlightenedSelfInterest or even of self-preservation.
** Liberal theologians are wishy-washy namby-pamby hypocrites who don’t believe that any objective reality exists.

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*** You should ideally be English. French people are amusing and silly, and Americans are airheads. If however, you should have the misfortune to be one of these categories, you ''can'' be redeemed, by trying to become as English as possible.

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*** Are you on the chubbier side? You're definitely stupid and probably a terrible person too.
*** Academic success is very important, and if you don't excel, that's a mark against your character. Unless you're one of the popular girls, and were simply being 'scatterbrained', because you had a nobler calling (i.e. some artistic pursuit or horses).
*** You should ideally be English. French people are amusing and silly, and Americans are airheads. If however, you should have the misfortune to be one of these categories, you ''can'' be redeemed, by trying to become as English as possible. \n
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* The works of Creator/EnidBlyton:
** Boarding Schools are wonderful places...as long as you meet the criteria to be a popular girl:
*** You can't be too plain...or too pretty, because very pretty girls are dumb, self-absorbed and sometimes cruel, and plain girls are dull.
*** Don't be shy or unconfident, but if you're overconfident, you also won't be accepted. You should be jolly, cheerful and completely willing to go along with pranks (even if they're dangerous or disruptive) or else you're boring.
*** You should excel at something, but don't be too proud of yourself about it.
*** Never show any distaste towards swimming, lacrosse or equestrian sports or else you are a sook.
*** Don't get upset if the popular girls are teasing you, you probably deserve it.
*** You should ideally be English. French people are amusing and silly, and Americans are airheads. If however, you should have the misfortune to be one of these categories, you ''can'' be redeemed, by trying to become as English as possible.
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*''The Literature/AnEmberInTheAshes series'':
** Redheads are evil.
** The children of revolutionaries are required to follow in their parent's footsteps. Regardless of their personal choice or safety.
** Iron and steel are the most powerful substances on earth.

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** When tyranny made itself a home once, it has no chance of ever disappearing from there again. So don't even try to fight it - the authorities will get you anyway, since everything always works out for a dictatorship.



** It's okay to do horrible things - becuase if you were good? You would have been raptured.
** Christianity makes for ''horrible'' writing.

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** It's okay to do horrible things - becuase because if you were good? You would have been raptured.
** Christianity makes for ''horrible'' writing.Sexual predators and utter jerkasses make role-model Christians.
** Pacifism is evil and comes maybe directly from hell. We should never, ever achieve world peace.

** Never trust handsome Romanians. Or pacifists. Or children of gay men.
** A flattened Earth, eternal sunshine and mountains that bleed wine are heaven. And Hebrew is spoken there.
** Christianity makes for '''horrible''' writing.



* ''Literature/TheReader'': Mass murder is understandable if the murderer is illiterate and female.

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Mass murder is understandable if the murderer is illiterate and female.
** Illiteracy makes you evil.

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** Do you want mathematical abilities like a supercomputer? Try smoking!



* ''Literature/HonorHarrington'': Half blind women who talk to cats, think they are Horatio Hornblower and commit ghastly acts of violence are the mark of true civilization.

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Half blind women who talk to cats, think they are Horatio Hornblower and commit ghastly acts of violence are the mark of true civilization.
** So there is this country where women are still caught in the roles of housewives and mothers? No worries! Do one great deed for the country and they will make you their first female ruler ever.
** Have issues with an assassin? Just sicc your cat at them!
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* ''Literature/TheChemicalGarden'':
** When a virus threatens to destroy humanity, don't dissect corpses of its victims for research on a possible cure. 'Never.' That may have been common practice in medical research for centuries, but it's evil.


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* ''Literature/TheProgram'':
** Therapy against depression strips the patients from any personality. So don't even try to cure people of depression. Let them kill themselves, it is what they want in the end.
** Parents who want their mentally ill children to stay alive and send them to treatment due to this wish are evil.
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* ''LightNovel/TheIrregularAtMagicHighSchool'': There is nothing wrong with bringing a nuke to school.

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*** Conservatives are indeed the experts in biology... unless it comes to animals.
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* Any Brave Books:
** Being conservative makes you a really ''really'' bad author!
** ''Only'' birds can sing!
** [[StrawHypocrite Furries are bad... but when WE use furries in our books? It's okay]].
** Being transgender is bad... though it's okay if you're a female peacock or a [[ArtisticLicenseBiology colourful bird in species where the females are usually grey looking]].
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* ''Literature/MagicalWarfare'': The best way to fight evil is to follow in its footsteps.

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** WomenAreWiser.
** Kids are apparently able to learn how to divide without a teacher's oversight.
** If you're sick from school? Don't relax - do ''homework''!
** You should always trust your kids to ''not'' goof off and have fun instead of doing tedious homework.
** Be nice to your asian neighbours - they might bring some amazing food to the potluck!




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** You should be kind to the social outcast because they might be a psychic.


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* ''Literature/LeftBehind'':
** The UN is a ''lot'' more powerful than it actually is!
** Babylon is in the middle of a desert instead of near Baghdad, Iraq.
** It's okay to do horrible things - becuase if you were good? You would have been raptured.
** Christianity makes for ''horrible'' writing.
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* ''Literature/QuintaglioAscension'':
** Priests are liars and cannibals.
** It's impossible to naturally just [[HatesBeingTouched not like being touched]]. If you do hate to be touched and don't like people in your personal space? It's because of mental trauma from when you were a baby.
** People are naturally racist.
** Abortion is ''great''!
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** Humans are bad because they damage the environment. Shame them for it - don't offer any ''alternatives''.
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*** Did you just seduce someone who is in a relationship, and their partner is angry at them? That person is a controlling asshole and this is a sign that person should leave them.


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** ''Every solve it yourself mystery ever'': If you don't like the way someone phrased an answer? [[ConvictionByContradiction They're probably lying]].


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*** ''Especially'' if those amateurs are people like old ladies, stay-at-home mothers, or even children!


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** ''Every''where is the murder capital of the world. Yes, even when it's a suburban area or a small town in someplace that has less than a million people.
** Anyone with any kind of fetish is just one step away from murder. No exceptions.
** White Collar Crime doesn't exist, unless there's somehow a murder related to it.
** Forensics are either magic or absolutely useless.
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** Want to make someone morally ambiguous? Make them absolute douchebags. The only reason the readers will root for the hero is because the narrator says so.
** You should never try to be a good person - because if you do? Then you'll get killed to show how bad the world truly is.
** All people of the cloth are [[CorruptChurch sheisters and scam artists]] who actively ''hate'' their religion.
* JerksAreWorseThanVillains. If someone is rude? They're worse than the people who are actual [[CompleteMonster monsters]].


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* Teenagers are either SurroundedByIdiots or monsters.


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** DarkFantasy: "Morally Ambiguous" means "CompleteMonster".


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** Ecosystems are yours to exploit.
** LuddWasRight.


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*** You also can't be a good person if you're not a Christian.
** You cannot be a Communist and a Christian. Despite Jesus having many communistic leanings.
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** Guys who tried to kill, kidnap and/or rob you multiple times in the past [[Literature/TheWarWithLiliputians are being nice to you for once]]? Treat them like your good old friends. Guys who also tried to kill you but whom you only met a few days ago? They are BeyondRedemption. On [[Literature/OneHundredYearsAhead a related note]], a weak-willed DirtyCoward is also BeyondRedemption: though it's implied he is murdered, don't spare him a single thought.

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** Guys who tried to kill, kidnap and/or rob you multiple times in the past [[Literature/TheWarWithLiliputians [[Literature/TheWarWithLilliputians are being nice to you for once]]? Treat them like your good old friends. Guys who also tried to kill you but whom you only met a few days ago? They are BeyondRedemption. On [[Literature/OneHundredYearsAhead a related note]], a weak-willed DirtyCoward is also BeyondRedemption: though it's implied he is murdered, don't spare him a single thought.

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** Guys who tried to kill, kidnap and/or rob you multiple times in the past in multiple books are being nice to you for once? Treat them like your good old friends. Guys who also tried to kill you but who were only introduced [[Literature/TheWarWithLilliputians in this particular book]]? They are BeyondRedemption.

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** Guys who tried to kill, kidnap and/or rob you multiple times in the past in multiple books [[Literature/TheWarWithLiliputians are being nice to you for once? once]]? Treat them like your good old friends. Guys who also tried to kill you but who were whom you only introduced [[Literature/TheWarWithLilliputians in this particular book]]? met a few days ago? They are BeyondRedemption.
BeyondRedemption. On [[Literature/OneHundredYearsAhead a related note]], a weak-willed DirtyCoward is also BeyondRedemption: though it's implied he is murdered, don't spare him a single thought.
** If one likes to play the drum, one is definitely ''not'' BeyondRedemption.
** If you are going to rescue your husband from some mysterious, faraway hostile place which is cut off from all communications, [[Literature/TheCityWithoutMemory take two twelve-year-olds with you]] because they want to go there so much.
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** If a girl has social anxiety and [[AmbiguousDisorder Ambiguously Autistic]] traits, it means she's destined to die young because she doesn't belong in this world.

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** If a girl has social anxiety and [[AmbiguousDisorder Ambiguously Autistic]] traits, [[DiagnosedByTheAudience traits suggestive of autism]], it means she's destined to die young [[TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth because she doesn't belong in this world.world]].
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* ''Literature/TheBereinstainBears'':

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* ''Literature/TheBereinstainBears'':
** You should have a clean room - not because it will help to know where things are, or because clutter on the floor is a tripping hazard, but because your parents will throw your toys away otherwise!
*** If your kids won't clean their room to your liking? Don't offer to do anything like ''help'' them... Throw their stuff away.
** No need to see a counselor or read up on ways to help deal with nervous habits - bribery works instead.
** Girl is being bullied at school? Shrug it off and teach her how to box. Don't do anything like tell ''the school staff''.
** All bullies have bad home lives and decide to pick on other kids because of it.
** Teasing is alright... so long as it's done from sibling to sibling.
** Teasing is alright... so long as it happens at school.
** Teasing is alright... so long as you gang up on a kid who teased his sister.
** If you teased your little sibling? You deserve to be teased at school.
** Wrestle with bullies if they tease you.
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** If you have committed any crime less serious than murder and want to be LetOffByTheDetective, fall deeply in love. Even attempted murder can be EasilyForgiven in such a case.

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** If you have committed any crime less serious than murder and want to be LetOffByTheDetective, fall [[LoveOverridesTheLaw deeply in love.love]]. Even attempted murder can be EasilyForgiven in such a case.
** If an amateur detective tells you what they say is the solution to the crime, believe them. Either they are absolutely right, or [[LetOffByTheDetective they are letting the criminal get away because the latter is sympathetic]].
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* The works of Creator/AgathaChristie:
** LoveAtFirstSight, unless its object turns out to be a murderer, will always lead to HappilyEverAfter. FourthDateMarriage is ''the'' way to do romantic relationships.
** If you have committed any crime less serious than murder and want to be LetOffByTheDetective, fall deeply in love. Even attempted murder can be EasilyForgiven in such a case.

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* ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'':
** Humans are naturally inclined to [[KickTheDog kick any number of dogs]] for any cause they believe is right; therefore, [[HobbesWasRight fear, hate and cruelty are the only rational ways to run society.]] Also, you can make anybody believe anything [[TortureAlwaysWorks provided you torture them enough]].
** Life sucks. Get used to it or thought police will find you.
** The state is theoretically capable of producing a utopia where everybody benefits, and has had this capability throughout all of history. The reason that no such utopia has ever existed is only because politicians are all utterly evil and delight in causing cruelty and suffering for its own sake.



* ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'':
** Humans are naturally inclined to [[KickTheDog kick any number of dogs]] for any cause they believe is right; therefore, [[HobbesWasRight fear, hate and cruelty are the only rational ways to run society.]] Also, you can make anybody believe anything [[TortureAlwaysWorks provided you torture them enough]].
** Life sucks. Get used to it or thought police will find you.
** The state is theoretically capable of producing a utopia where everybody benefits, and has had this capability throughout all of history. The reason that no such utopia has ever existed is only because politicians are all utterly evil and delight in causing cruelty and suffering for its own sake.

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* ''Literature/{{Thinner]]: Running over an old woman is the most effective weight loss programme you'll ever find.

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*''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'', ''Literature/DrJekyllAndMrHyde'', ''Literature/TheInvisibleMan'': In general, science is bad.
** Ambition, and wanting to use science to make the world a better place are stupid ideas. Stupid ideas that will get you, and everyone you know and love brutally murdered.

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