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Is this meant to be a trope about how atheists were once portrayed in Hollywood - which I assume to mean pop-culture media - or how they are portrayed now? I am not trying to start a flame war, but most mainstream media do their best to avoid these stereotypes, and instead show atheists to be rational, calm, and generally more morally upright than a religious person. Most films and books that show religious people to be correct or more upstanding than an atheist are typically rejected by mainstream culture. Not saying that these stereotypes do not exist at all, but I just don\'t think they really exist in Hollywood anymore.
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Is this meant to be a trope about how atheists were once portrayed in Hollywood - which I assume to mean pop-culture media - or how they are portrayed now? I am not trying to start a flame war, but most mainstream media do their best to avoid these stereotypes, and instead show atheists to be rational, calm, and generally more morally upright than a religious person. Most films and books that show religious people to be correct or more upstanding than an atheist are typically rejected by mainstream culture. Not saying that these stereotypes do not exist at all, but I just don\\\'t think they really exist in the Hollywood of today anymore.
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\\\"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.\\\"
That is, sometimes War is a necessary Evil, and people who fail to realize this are worse than those willing to fight when necessary.
This trope is about war being something DESIRABLE and to be actively encouraged as a Positive Thing, not just that war is not Evil. Mill is clear that certain things are worth fighting for, not that war is overall a good experience, which are different concepts.
That is, sometimes War is a necessary Evil, and people who fail to realize this are worse than those willing to fight when necessary.
This trope is about war being something DESIRABLE and to be actively encouraged as a Positive Thing, not just that war is not Evil. Mill is clear that certain things are worth fighting for, not that war is overall a good experience, which are different concepts.
