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Why Was Judge Doom Allowed to Execute a Random Shoe?


What did that shoe do wrong?

Even as a metaphor for racially-biased (in)justice and the suspension of due process, the execution was rather extreme, especially as it was witnessed by various reasonably good cops and civilians like Eddie.

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Did cartoons have equal rights under the law outside of toon land? Probably not considering that they were a creation of humans. It would probably be the same if he had a robot with A.I. and decided to smash it into pieces.

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They were a creation of humans.
Aren't we all? 😉

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touche

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He was never allowed, he just did it anyway to prove a point, that he could do what he wanted with no consequences and scare spectators into submission through fear, intimidation, and forceful punishment. He gets away with this due to the inherent prejudices found within a lot of the people, especially the main detective character, who stand by and do nothing in eerie silence so long as it's not their own neck on the line.

The moment that shoe is executed, we see a spark of "humanity?" in Bob Hopkins's character, who's beginning to question his entrenched beliefs and worldview.

~~/o/

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