Speaking of the paradox of tolerance, here's a pretentious analysis of Dirty Harry I came across in the wild
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I don't think the reviewer is pretentious. The reviewer nails Dirty Harry exactly as the movie was meant. Nice, gentle liberals can't handle psychopaths like Scorpio.
And that is a chilling thought. Because it means humanity can't rise from its barbarity or cruelty.
The analysis isn't really wrong, but the part where he says, "the film forces the viewer to think on a philosophical plane, especially about Karl Popper's paradox of tolerance" comes across as a bit pretentious to me. The same reviewer also says that Dirty Harry may be fascist later on in that comment thread.