🔹 Fictional characters are not real people.

🔹 Fictional characters do not need to be protected from authors.

🔹There is no moral difference between writing about good things happening to a character and bad things happening to a character.

🔹Fictional abuse has no moral value, and does not not reflect in any way on the author or the reader.

🔹There is nothing wrong with making characters do illegal things in fiction or suffer horrible things happening to them.

🔹Writing or enjoying fiction about characters committing crimes, or suffering abuse does not make you a bad person.

🔹An author is under no obligation to make sure that their audience knows that the bad things that happen in their story are bad.

🔹There is no reason to assume that someone writing or reading about crimes or bad things happening doesn’t know that those things are bad.

🔹There is no reason to assume that someone writing or reading about crimes or bad things happening wants those things to happen.

🔹If you cannot separate between writing about or enjoying an idea in fiction, and wanting to commit that act in real life that is a you problem, not a problem with the fiction.