Should The Interview Be Canned?

If you haven't been keeping up with the news, allow me to fill you in. The Interview is a comedy starring James Franco and Seth Rogen. The premise is two reporters who have an interview with Kim Jong Un, and the CIA hire them to assassinate him. This was actually one of my first ever blog posts, talking about Kim Jong Un's reaction to the film premise. Now after the recent Sony hacks, the hackers are claiming to be North Korea, protesting the release of The Interview, and are now threatening to bomb movie theatres that show the film. This of course has caused a lot of controversy, both Sony and multiple movie theatres have pulled the film and now it's looking like it's going to be canned all together. This has caused a lot of controvery from negotiating with terrorists, free speech, racism, and all sorts of issues like that. Now personally i'm not one of those "We don't negotiate with terrorists" type of people because the logic behind that is negotiating with them makes you come across as weak and makes you look bad, but i personally think that willing to let innocent people die just because of your stubborness looks worse, call me old fashioned (!). And this is the main reason why I am completley fine if Sony or movie theatres wish to pull this film, because first of all, i doubt this was going to be comedy of the century or anything so i don't really care. But mostly because, a lot of the people who want this film to be shown because of free speech, have been saying that it is most likely a hoax. And while I agree, it is most likely a hoax, i don't think it's worth the risk. So to those people who are defending the film, I just have to ask...what if the threats are real? What if a theatre gets bombed because of it, is it worth it? Is it worth sacrificing innocent people for a film that supposedly isn't even that great? Because I gotta be honest, if I had to chose between free speech and letting a few dozen innocent people die...i'm gonna go with saving innocent people, because the alternative seems selfish and stubborn to me.

-Danny