50 eps of 50 shows from the 2010s
↳ Person of Interest // 4x11 If-Then-Else *aired | January 6, 2015
“If you remember nothing else, please remember this. Chess is just a game. Real people aren’t pieces. And you can’t assign more value to some of them than to others. Not to me, not to anyone. People are not a thing that you can sacrifice. The lesson is that anyone who looks on the world as if it was a game of chess, deserves to lose.”
This was a nice progression of character development
“I don’t talk like that in real life” stood out to me in this. Because I think a LOT of the people who get attacked for mean posts on the internet and are suddenly confused and defensive are probably pretty nice people irl. (Not everyone obviously, some people do truely suck but that’s not the point I’m making)
The internet has fostered and developed a culture of “being needlessly mean is funny”. No one is immune to it, even genuinely nice people. Unfortunately, the internet has also bred a culture of the “I was just trying to be funny!!!” defense instead of doing what this guy did and going “huh, maybe I was wrong if so many people are pissed”.
Be like this guy, own up if/when you fall for the easy internet trap of “being mean for laughs” and try to see the world from someone else’s perspective.
