good propaganda: Acknowledges and even embraces our innate violence. Ethics are evident as the side with superior morale and zeal emerges victorious. It is "othering" to the extent we commit daily upon our fellow man, e.g., Top Gun

bad propaganda: Lampshades our violence as tough but necessary evils at worst and, at best, misunderstood benevolence. Ethics are suspended in the realm of subjective value judgments—the historiographer's luxury—which can wait. Meanwhile the Highway of Death happens, e.g., Call of Duty