You Deserve It!

Or maybe you don’t, but that’s not the point

Clint Eastwood as William Munny in Unforgiven: “We all have it coming, kid.”

In the climactic scene of the 1992 western, Unforgiven, William Munny (played by Clint Eastwood) holds a rifle to the chest of a supine and wounded Little Bill Daggett (Gene Hackman), the corrupt sheriff who had tortured and killed Munny’s friend and partner. Little Bill looks up from the floor and pleads his case. “I don’t deserve this — to die like this. I…