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I’m gonna say it.
It’s unhinged to assume that someone’s taste in fiction equates to what they believe is moral or good, or is something they want to see or experience in real life.
That is a bonkers assumption to make.
I’m tired of humoring people with long arguments about it when the simple fact is it is a totally fucking absurd reach to accuse someone who enjoys something in fiction of being in favor of it in real life.
I’m tired of pretending like this is a legitimate position to hold– that they should be afraid of fiction’s dire influence on a reader’s moral decay or that it’s a sign of what the author secretly wants for realsies in real life.
I love to read and write about crimes and drugs and stuff but that doesn’t mean I’m going to do those things or that I believe those things are right
some people need to ( for lack of a better word ) educate themselves and gain some common sense man
There’s a fair amount of research literature on this topic, and the general consensus is that fiction does not affect a person’s morality, provided that the person already knows right and wrong
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