Hey. I don’t give a shit about what anyone likes in fiction or roleplay. I care about how they treat people in real life, especially when they could get away with things with no consequences.
On that note? Some of the nicest, most considerate, most conscientious people I know are the ones who like super dark fiction. They’re aware, from a combination of reading and personal experience, just what horrors people are capable of, and that’s why they treat other people with respect, because they don’t want reality to turn into that any more than it has to.
Meanwhile, the ones who think that fictional taste is equivalent to real morality and that thinking about or imagining a thing is equivalent to reality are the meanest, most abusive, most vitriolic, dangerous people I’ve ever had the misfortune to meet. But it only matters if you read the approved things and shun the problematic ones, right?
It’s a lot easier to enforce a canon of good and bad literature than it is to do right by your fellow human beings. One cannot be allowed to become a substitute for the other. Be kind to people. Life is too short to waste time being pointlessly mean.
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