This thread encapsulates the spectrum of social responsibility. At one end, you have well meaning spectacles exercising influence on impressionable minds. Then the other end has people who willfully decide to be socially egregious, whether inspired by other well-meaning protagonists, or simply as a result of some creative thinking of their own volition.

I'd say that folks like Bear ought to think a little bit more about the message they are going to deliver vs. that which they would like to think they are portraying. Others, such as the fine, upstanding citizen at the Academy that shoots his neighbors' dogs with a bb gun just because he can, should be taken out and compassionately horsewhipped behind the shed, with the understanding that he needs help in overcoming some childhood trauma or other psychological phenomena which would otherwise make him a victim.

Then there are truly evil people, for whom a 240 grain piece of lead is their one and only reprieve. Self-inflicted would be preferable.