Andrew Jarecki
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We've got to promote the good people and get rid of the bad people.
Not recognizing that everybody's a little of both and that some people certainly do a lot more bad stuff in the world than good stuff and vice versa.
But you have to see yourself, as you're describing.
You have to recognize what's happening in your backyard in order for the community to work.
You can't say, well, look, I'm always right.
My neighbor's always wrong.
And therefore, I'm just going to keep raging over this.
You have to say like...
You know, I could see myself doing something.
I could see myself โ boy, if I really got out of hand, I could see myself having a โ you know, taking a swing at somebody.
And that's probably not a good thing.
But I don't want to say that somebody else that did it is automatically just a horrible person.
And that's why โ you know, if you see this attorney general in Alabama โ
This idea that he says there are these horrible people in the world, people who have no respect for human life, and yet he's presiding over 1,500 of them dying.
But he doesn't imagine that he's part of the problem.
So it's a very topsy-turvy kind of world.
And also cruelty plays a part in it.
We know that if you โ sometimes we say about this film that it's about what we do to each other when no one is watching.
Like all human beings have a little bit of a propensity to want to put a firecracker in a frog's mouth and just see what happens.