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Re:Theater Chains Decline to Show Sony’s ‘The Interview,’ Ci... by notjackma on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @10:43PM (#8765875)
Seth Rogen is a bit of a coward. He picked an easy target in Kim given that North Korea is isolated and has no ability to do any real harm to him. Easy to mock somebody who can't get back at you.

Would he have dared to make a comedy mocking Mohammed the warlord turned prophet and 72 virgins in heaven? I guess he was smart enough to figure out that life under police protection would have cramped his partying.

Oh, and Seth is a total prima-donna, witness his recent tirade against Cathay Pacific because they wouldn't allow his wife's dog onto the plane due to the breed being more susceptible to death during flight.

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Re:Theater Chains Decline to Show Sony’s ‘The Interview,’ Ci... by dopamean on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @11:34PM (#8765983)
I think there might be a difference between mocking an actual dictator causing real harm to real people and an ancient religious figure.
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Re:Theater Chains Decline to Show Sony’s ‘The Interview,’ Ci... by klibertp on Thursday December 18, 2014 @05:32AM (#8766739)
That "ancient religious figure" is arguably causing real harm to real people right now, too. If anything, the difference should be that mocking "ancient religious figure" should be risk-free, while mocking psychos with nuclear weapons is rather risky. How it became exactly the opposite is beyond me.
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