Fiction DOES Matter! Criminals, Desensitization, Right to Judge, & MORE!!!

Added: 2026-05-07

[00:00:00]People are stubborn with this topic, aren't they?

[00:00:02]// I don't understand the whole "It's fictional.

[00:00:05]Why does it matter?" ideology when it comes  to topic such as [insert taboo topics here].

[00:00:10]It really doesn't matter what taboo  topics you're talking about there. This guy included young anime girls, young furry  characters, forbidden familial relationships, human-animal relationships, they are fictional  characters. Just because they happen and they're illegal in the real world doesn't mean we  can't explore them in fiction. If anything, exploring them in fiction is the best place  to do so, the same way killing people in video games is the only way to kill people without  suffering any life-changing consequences.

[00:00:38]// They're immoral and unjustifiable.

[00:00:43]So is murder, and we do that  on fiction all the time.

[00:00:47]// If you genuinely are into such stuff, I strongly and firmly believe that you should  most definitely seek therapy of some sort.

[00:00:56]Yeah, the problem is the therapists  are the ones recommending dark fiction, and they still do even to this day.

[00:01:02]// Considering most of the time,  those kinks or fetishes stem from deeply rooted trauma such as  manipulation, grooming, etc. Uh, no. I enjoy taboo topics not because I  have trauma. I do have traumas. Most people do, but that has nothing to do with what  formed our fetishes and what we like sexually. Even psychologists are  still rather wishy washy on how or why we form things that turn us on  sexually. I don't know how I was able to get turned on by Claire Redfield as a  kid, but I got turned on by her anyway.

[00:01:35]If anything, you're seeing this whole thing  backwards. You see it as a negative that people who suffer through trauma explore that trauma  in fiction and turn them into their own kinks.

[00:01:45]In reality, it's actually a positive thing  that they are able to turn that into fiction and cognitively externalize themselves to  see the whole issue. It's comforting. It's cathartic. It's erotic to some people,  clearly, but it's definitely not bad.

[00:02:00]// There are factual cases  of fictional media having real world ramifications. One search on  an internet browser will tell you so.

[00:02:09]I genuinely don't know what "cases" of fictional  media having real world ramifications that you got. You go search one and give me an example,  and I'll tell you that it's a load of garbage.

[00:02:20]Oh, wait. Never mind. Someone  here does the job for you.

[00:02:24]Fiction is dangerous and it affects  reality because of these stupid examples.

[00:02:29]// Here's a thread of murders  or true crime cases in which the criminals were inspired by a work of fiction.

[00:02:37]Spoiler Alert: None of these cases  have the criminals be "inspired" by a work of fiction. They are  already nuts to begin with.

[00:02:46]The first case is about  this guy who imitated Freddy Krueger. He's a drug addict with paranoid  schizophrenia. Most people are not that, and certainly not most Nightmare on  Elm Street fans. By citing this case, you're advocating for A Nightmare on Elm  Street to be censored, which is ridiculous.

[00:03:05]The second case is the Slender Man stabbing.  The kid who did that is nuts. She spent seven years in the Mental Health Institute. Last time  I heard, she's apparently on the run. Most people who love Slender Man are not on the run and  spent seven years in a mental institute. Next.

[00:03:23]The third case is this guy who mimicked  a scene from Saw VI as he tried to stab a homeless man to sever his spinal cord.  Uh, Jigsaw doesn't stab people in the movie if I recall correctly. He's too busy  fighting against healthcare corruption. No, I'm not kidding. There is someone who  stab a lot in Saw VI. It's Hoffman, and I don't think anyone's mimicking him. To  connect this lunatic to Saw VI is a huge stretch.

[00:03:51]The fourth but mistyped as 3 is a 32-year-old  ex-con who said that he did exactly what he saw in the movie, and the movie is Robocop  2. You do realize that he's an ex-con, right? I don't think that most people who  watch Robocop will turn into cons anytime soon.

[00:04:11]Again, you indirectly advocated for the  censorship of those movies that have been seen by millions of people who turned out fine  with an absolutely banger game too. Seriously, Rogue City is awesome. Go play that. The  more you blame these movies, the more you look like an easily influenced idiot. This anti-fiction lunatic cited four times where people have committed crimes because of  fiction, except in all those four times, all the perpetrators are already crazy to begin with,  but the terrible arguments do not stop there.

[00:04:44]// You cannot read this and deny the impact  that fiction has had on the real world.

[00:04:50]Yes, I can deny it, because most people are not  paranoid schizophrenic drug addicted ex-convicts.

[00:04:57]// Writing fanfiction shipping a canonical  lesbian with a man is in fact lesbophobia.

[00:05:04]No, it's not. We're talking  about fictional characters here, not real people. Seeing a lot of Tracer 18+  content featuring her with guys despite her being a lesbian herself doesn't make  me or the viewers of her hate lesbians.

[00:05:20]Hold on. Apparently, the fanfiction  is about a non-consensual "corrective" fic. Take an LGBT character, force her to  have intercourse with the opposite sex, and she's straight now. That is messed up. That  is homophobic. That does happen in real life, but we're not talking about real life. They're  all still within the context of fiction.

[00:05:40]// It may give someone the idea that it is  okay for them to go out and commit such a heinous act simply because they read it in  a fic somewhere or saw talk of it online.

[00:05:52]First off, reading a fic is different to  seeing someone talk about it online. One is fiction. One is reality. Second, if you  read dark fiction and think that it's okay to commit crimes in real life because of that,  either you're already crazy to begin with or you are easily influenced by fiction.  Either way, most people are not like you.

[00:06:16]// Those promoting and even encouraging  corrective and forceful intercourse fic with this pairing simply to piss  someone off are sick individuals.

[00:06:26]That, or they just troll you because you  are so easily triggered by fiction. They don't actually mean them. They just hate  you specifically. So, they write something that will know for a fact piss you off. When people argue about having rights, sometimes, it's not actually about  having them. It's about how you use them.

[00:06:47]// We have the right to judge the  morality of someone who reads dark fiction to get aroused, not  to study abuse, trauma, etc. I too have the right to say  that you're a judgmental idiot, but that's missing the point. The point is why  are you using your right to judge to something that really shouldn't be judged? It's dark  fiction. Evil Dead is dark fiction, and it's freaking awesome. The second one especially,  and Army of Darkness. They're all awesome.

[00:07:14]// I don't even mean that someone  will commit crimes after reading this type of story, but why does someone enjoy it?

[00:07:22]Because it's cathartic. It's fiction. We're  exploring dark topics in a safe and healthy environment. You're using your right to  judge to the wrong people. They can like whatever fictional content they like no  matter how dark or disturbing they are.

[00:07:38]Them liking dark fiction has nothing to  do with their real-life behaviors, and the sooner you disassociate the two, the better. Here's another argument from an anti-fiction.

[00:07:49]// Fiction does affect reality.  Look up the word desensitization.

[00:07:55]Except you're missing a very significant  context, which is that desensitization is only true towards the fictional content,  not towards the real thing. I see gore in action and horror movies and games all  the time. I will feel squeamish if I see actual gore in real life. I welcome you  to research this and confirm it yourself.

[00:08:20]// Search up "Why is exposing children  to adult content is a bad idea."

[00:08:25]No one is doing that, or at least  no one should be doing that.

[00:08:29]// Come back with an essay of how  sexual content can affect someone.

[00:08:33]Well, psychology has pretty much covered the  effect of sexual content towards people in general. There are positive effects,  negative effects, but in the end, it's not the sexual content that affects the  consumer. It's how the consumer reacts to it.

[00:08:48]You are a person. This is just fiction.  You control what you do, not fiction.

[00:08:54]// Come back with an essay about how incest  can cause toxic relationships in the family.

[00:09:01]Toxic is an understatement. But  here's the thing. I don't need to research how incest destroys  family. You, on the other hand, need to come back with an essay about how  fictional incest doesn't lead to real incest.

[00:09:15]That's not something that happens. If you  think it does, then the problem is on you.

[00:09:21]What is it with these moral guardians  thinking fiction affects reality again?

[00:09:25]// Fiction still does affect you. What  you consume in general does affect you.

[00:09:31]They do, but not in the way you think it does. You can start with Aristotle's Poetics  and learn what catharsis means.

[00:09:38]// It's good to make sure  you can actually make out what you're reading so that you don't  let it influence you the wrong way.

[00:09:46]Are you talking to me or  are you talking to yourself?

[00:09:49]// To all the people quote retweeting this  and pointing out how allegedly stupid it would be to let fictional works affect them in the  first place, welcome to propagandist politics.

[00:09:59]Except fiction is not propaganda. What did you say  again? "It's good to make sure you can actually make out what you're reading." You can't even tell  the difference between fiction and propaganda.

[00:10:11]// Fictional works and this supposed "reality" you keep on separating it from aren't as  distinct from each other as you think.

[00:10:19]Okay. You are delusional. You should be put  into the nearest asylum because you have officially lost your mind. "Fiction aren't  as distinct from reality." Unbelievable.

[00:10:31]"You're not living in reality. You're  totally detached from reality."

[00:10:34]This anti-fiction person cited  an article that talks about how fiction isn't fact. Yes. Fiction is not fact.

[00:10:42]This paragraph is about how fiction  is grounded in some form of reality and well-recognized truths so that  the audiences can relate to them, but that doesn't mean fiction is real. Puss in  Boots The Last Wish depicts panic and trauma so authentically that people genuinely feel that Puss  was panicking and in actual danger of dying. That doesn't mean there is an actual talking Spaniard  cat getting traumatized by a Grim Reaper wolf.

[00:11:07]// Fiction is still consumed information.

[00:11:11]No, it's not. It's entertainment. It's not  information. Just because fiction tells some form of truth or factual information doesn't mean  the whole content is real or should be treated as real. Truth in Television is a real concept.  That doesn't mean television as a whole is real.

[00:11:31]// You have to keep in mind  how susceptible you are to malleability regardless of how nonsensical  the world you're reading comes off across.

[00:11:39]Are you talking to me or are you  talking to yourself? Because this paragraph sounds like something  you must keep in mind, not me.

[00:11:46]// Whether you like it or not, data  is what we use to process the world.

[00:11:52]Wow. Not only you don't understand the  nuances of reality within fiction. You also don't understand the difference between  data and information. Hierarchy of knowledge.

[00:12:02]Look it up. Just because fiction has some data  of truth doesn't mean it's the actual truth.

[00:12:08]// The people still quote tweeting thinking I want to ban taboo representation of concepts in  fiction are completely missing the point.

[00:12:16]You literally said, "Fiction and reality aren't  as distinct from each other." You are delusional.

[00:12:24]Here's an interesting conversation  between a pro and an anti-fiction.

[00:12:28]The anti-fiction asked, "Do you think people that love young anime characters are not  predators that will target children?"

[00:12:34]The pro answered, "I think there are.  It's not black and white." I agree.

[00:12:39]The anti-fiction answered. "I  just don't know how to feel about that. A good majority of people may  disagree with you on that statement."

[00:12:47]Actually, a good majority of people really  do not care about this topic at all.

[00:12:52]This is a topic that only a small niche  of people on the internet are generally passionate about. Most people will only know  the surface level knowledge of the issue, and sometimes, it shows based  on how they talk about it.

[00:13:05]If the level of intelligence that I'm seeing on  this discourse is similar to the Dunning-Krueger effect, I guarantee that most people on the  internet and especially offline haven't even seen the hill. They have no idea about any  of these terms that we constantly bicker and discuss about because they got way  better stuff to do than any of us here.

[00:13:24]If you participate in this discourse, you  got way more free time than most people do, and since I have the privilege to interact  with actual normal breathing human lives outside of the internet, I can assure you that  most of them do not care about any of us here.

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