I don't know how much Perry Mason you've watched over the years, but there always seemed to be shows where the otherwise nice person was driven to murder because of the actions of the truly evil character in the story.

While I don't condone murder, and obviously, it was still fiction, I've wondered just what I'm supposed to get out of any of that. Even bad, nasty, people don't deserve to die, or killing is never justified?

I would imagine, though, along with the actual killing, the other problem was, they were trying to get away with it, and usually letting someone be framed, if not purposefully doing it, so the act of murder was compounded with lies and so forth.

Now, we've got anti-heroes running around killing people left and right in our movies and television shows, and all of its somehow justified.