A small retro television with a pink screen, a toy lightning bolt on top, and a bowl of popcorn beside it.

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Cher

Until mankind is peaceful enough not to have violence on the news, there's no point in taking it out of shows that need it for entertainment value.

— Clueless · 1995

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker argues that dropping violence from entertainment makes little sense while real violence still fills the news. Until the world itself is peaceful, she says, shows that rely on it for entertainment might as well keep it. It's a confident, teenage-logic style argument.

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