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You don’t have to apologize, or perform authorial disgust, for dark, violent, sexual, cruel or problematic topics in the fiction you create.
Fiction does not exist to teach an audience a moral lesson. You as an author are not required to be your audience’s moral teacher.
You can have bad things happen– you can have a protagonist who is bad– without having to explain to your audience that they are bad.
Didactic art is not art. Ask Wilde.
“Art is useless because its aim is simply to create a mood. It is not meant to instruct, or to influence action in any way.” –Oscar Wilde
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