For someone who is supposed to be brilliant his plan sure seemed short sighted. If Cocteau wanted Friendly dead so that
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lunchtime916 — 9 years ago(October 15, 2016 03:02 PM)
For someone who is supposed to be brilliant his plan sure seemed short sighted. If Cocteau wanted Friendly dead so that he can preserve the order and harmony of the society he created how is thawing countless violent criminals to take out one guy who used graffiti and only stole food. Let's say Phoenix did kill Friendly. What next? Everyone he released is 50x worse, have intel on everything in the city and trained in weaponry and military warfare. Seems like a terrible counter-intuitive plan.
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themightyperm — 9 years ago(October 18, 2016 11:24 PM)
people in charge do stupid and terrible things.
His crimes are of pretension and hypocrisy. He pretends he is a good guy, but he is really a dictator. Everyone does what he says, but he's taking away freedoms.
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jjpeters9717 — 9 years ago(December 18, 2016 06:55 PM)
If they had thrown in a line about how Cocteau had included in Phoenixs rehab program that Phoenix would kill himself once Friendly was dead, that would have at least made it appear Cocteau had thought his plan through. There could even have been a short debate between John Spartan and Huxley about whether or not they should just kill Friendly themselves to force Phoenix to kill himself. It might have been interesting to see how each of them felt about the sacrifice one for the good of the many argument. But as it is, Cocteau just seems incredibly foolish and nave.