HACKER Q&A
📣 amichail

Is it wrong for Hollywood to make a WW3 movie based on current events?


The movie would take current events as the spark that ultimately leads to World War 3 and possibly nuclear war.

Would it be morally wrong to make such a (mostly fictional) movie?


  👤 themodelplumber Accepted Answer ✓
Moral wrongs are typically built from subjective moral frameworks and those frameworks IMO are more interesting than the conclusive wrong/right outcome they may yield.

Example: Getting a populace, which already thinks in extreme terms about the future, to view more extreme content about the future, is probably risky and downright unhealthy for a lot of those who will view & then feel increased stress or anxiety

Counterexample: Allowing the populace to exorcise its fear through an affecting viewing experience could be a really good outcome in terms of creating more careful discourse; see for example _Threads_ or _The Day After_

Personally I have to say I lean toward the counterexample, especially if a variety of filmmakers are making different films about the consequences of given timelines. In this case you get a dilution or diversion of energy through varying psychological perspectives, which is helpful in creating systems of nuanced thought.

You can also do this within a single film and this has become a more common way of handling narrative perspectives in modern cinema.

And more generally I lean toward "here's a good way to go about this process of thinking about X" rather than "should we do this X thing" because you can fill the judgment-vacuum with ideas that people can use, rather than simply creating a massive and risky judgment vacuum by casting perceptions of what may happen.

Interesting Q though, you got me thinking.


👤 MattGaiser
Why would it be wrong?