Hunger Games ... 'Government is Bad.'

I'm no saint or wise man. I did try to explain the world to a friend today with out using real world explanations. It didn't go all that well.
My friend was talking about the Hunger Games books and movies. So I tried to steer the conversation to our cultural acceptance of violence by mentioning some of the worst killings in the books and movies. All are children. That seemed to go flying over his head.

So I asked if he knew the main theme of the story. 'Oh yeah. Government is bad.'

No. Violent rebellion against violent oppression creates more violent oppression by a new set of actors.

So he gave me that 'What the frack does that mean?' look so I explained.

The story was all about innocence. She, the main character, a 16 year old female, took up violence to protect her innocent little sister from violence. In the end, she couldn't stop the violence, couldn't protect innocence, and was back exactly where she started.
Her sister died. Innocence died. Nothing really changed but Dayum, we killed some people.