sean penn is a hypocrite.

[Screamapillar]

McDonaldsGuy said:

Screamapillar said:

He's an actor. He works for a paycheck, just like most of the rest of us.

I work at a convenience store. I'm against alcohol abuse. Does that mean I ought to refuse to sell booze to people that I know are alcoholics? No. If you are a consenting adult, it's your choice if you wish to cause harm to your own body. It's not my place to interfere. You're going to live how you want to live.

Actors portray others in film and television.  It doesn't have any correlation to their beliefs in real life.  If Jeff Daniels plays a plantation owner in the south during the 1830's in a film, it doesn't mean that he's pro-slavery.  How silly would it be if someone were to crticize Jeff Daniels in real life for protraying a historicial figure in a film?   Pretty darn silly.  He's pretending to be somebody else for money. 

Sean Penn is a very progressive person.  He supports anti-gun legislation and he is generally very liberal.  He plays other people when he's at work.  It doesn't have anything to do with his personal beliefs.  You might not like it, or you might even argue that it's ironic.  It's not hypocrisy, though.

Are you advertising the beer yourself? By glorifying guns in a movie he advertises it as well. If you starred in a beer commercial, then yes, you would be a hypocrite.

If he was a villain, and really evil and used guns, that'd be different.

I don't know what this movie is about though, so I am speaking in general. Like how Liam Neeson is against guns yet his movies always glorify them.

If Jeff Daniels played a plantation owner in a movie, it'll likely not glorify it. He'd either be a villain, or an anti-hero. Never glorified or look "cool" and good. If Jeff Daniels made a movie where the plantation owner is a hero, and promotes slavery clearly, then yes him choosing that role is questionable and hypocritical.

If I advertised beer, it wouldn't make me a hypocrite.  Not unless you consider all alcohol consumption as abuse.  Respectfully, as others in this thread have already pointed out in so many words, your system of rules doesn't make too much sense to me.  I don't agree with your point of view on this topic.