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⌈ Secret Post #4386 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I tend to see that as the person being unable to emotionally handle the fact that they killed another human being, not that they feel guilty of murder. Like people being upset about having to put down an animal even if they know for a fact it wasn't going to live.

Maybe you could view it as a sensitivity thing vs. a right-or-wrong thing?

[(Anonymous)]

I think this is spot on.

[(Anonymous)]

I can't think of any examples off-hand, but I feel like usually in fiction, it's portrayed as being much more about whether it was right or wrong, not just a purely emotional reaction.

[(Anonymous)]

People do that in real life, too, though. They confuse the emotional upset of killing with morality because 'if they feel horrible about it, it must be that they were wrong, right?' Even when they turn around and agree in a strictly factual sense there wasn't anything they could do. Emotions are weird like that.

So I wouldn't say it's unrealistic to portray that way. Usually the shows also have people arguing the logical side to make them stop angsting too.

[(Anonymous)]

This.

[catdetective]

I think sometimes there's a disingenuous 'killing someone makes me as bad as the murderer', which... is a very hard sell. But most of the time I interpret a character having hard time coming to grips with an act of defense that meant killing someone as being a sensitivity thing. Most of us would have SOME difficulty coping with it as a trauma thing even if we believed we took the best possible course of action, and especially if the character in question is not inured to violence, I think it works and I like it.

Of course, when it's a character who's in shootouts with bad guys every week, it can also get a little silly, but...

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed. I don't have much issue with it unless the show seems to think or portray that they're right that they're as bad as the murderer. But usually the shows have them freak out, and their friends or coworkers or plot events make them see that there wasn't anything more or better they could have done, and they get over the angst. ...eventually, anyway.

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed. I think the issue is that shows generally take a less complex approach because they want the angst and pathos, but tackling it in a more realistic way takes longer than they've got. So the bit someone else said upthread about mixing up the emotional reaction and the morality issue sounds interesting...but too complicated to write for one episode.