As we have seen on this board over the silliest of things, everyone tends to paint themselves as the normal ones and the world reacts to them (it's hilarious to me how many posters truly believe they are moderates).
In other words, very few people enjoy being a lowlife, piece of shit, bat shit crazy extremist so we have to be able to justify why we might be perceived as one.
We need a cause or at least a divergence from that feeling.
I could defend Stalin unlike Marv, but I'd have to remind/convince myself how important it is for proper representation as a process. I'm not defending the abominable crimes on humanity this guy did, I'm protecting the virtue of the process cause if I didn't then the process becomes corrupted by emotion and mob mentality....or something like that.
Which makes me feel better.
That's at least much better than say working for something that causes pain and suffering (say Philip Morris today). Then you probably convince yourself it's all personal choice, it's not going away so someone will still do it if I don't, get lost in the game of marketing or what not).
As an aside, Hollywood has tender to lose its focus on how important this mental game we play is to character building. Instead of having a villian that you understand it's justification for being that villain you're just getting villains being evil for the sake of being evil, which means we don't have any investment in that character. They don't make us think or consider their POV.
