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Saying “this niche, properly tagged, warned, and rated piece of fiction could theoretically hurt someone” is not a good argument. This properly labeled cookie with the allergen information at the bottom that contains gluten could theoretically harm me very badly, but only if I consume it. Tags are like nutrition labels, and warnings are like allergy information. If you know you have an allergy to something, the logic is to stay away from it. It is the same with fiction. I’m not running through stores yelling at people to take all the products with gluten off the shelves just because it could hurt me. Instead I ignore it and go to the gluten free section and find cookies that are right for me. And if running through a grocery store yelling sounds ridiculous, that’s because it is. Stop doing the same with fiction.
Hey, @evilwriter37
I’m gonna need to ask you a walnut question for form’s sake.
Suppose you found a blank bag of very generic-looking whatevers but there’s no clue as to what it is. You ask one of the members of staff what that’s about and they say `
“Oh, that’s the John Doe Surprise Special. Mr. Doe has this bad habit of baking at 3am or whenever he can’t sleep. Because it’s the middle of the night, he never knows whether he’s put in [potential allergen 1, potential allergen 2, potential allergen 3 and/or potential allergen 4].”
What do you do next?
Well, if you have allergies, it’s very obvious to not consume the unmarked bag. A rule of thumb for me with allergies (irl) and content warnings is: if I don’t know what’s in it, I don’t eat it. It’s that simple. I don’t know if you’re trying to egg me on or something, but no one is forcing you to “eat” the unmarked bag.
They always seem to use this as some kind of “gotcha”.
Like, pal, you don’t have to eat the unlabeled food, and you don’t have to read the unlabeled fic.
You’re not in a situation where you will starve and die if you don’t eat (read) the unlabeled food (fic).
You don’t actually need fic to live at all. You would be just fine if nobody labeled their fic.
If something’s unlabeled you can accept the risk to read it or you can do what’s healthy for you and not read it.
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