Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Anti-fiction people really have no concepts of nuance or even empathy.
// I am starting to think that depiction is endorsement.
Okay, then. By that logic, fans of action movies endorse beating people in real life, right? No. Fans of a certain media endorse having more of that media, not the media being applied in real life. Fans of slasher films do not endorse real murder. They do however endorse more media like it.
// Showing X means telling people doing X is something worth being shown.
Wow. You almost got that. You are so close to approaching a nuanced conversation.
// If you don't want to endorse what you are showing, you have to show its downsides, and even then, it's not guaranteed.
Every media that I consume depicting or glorifying horrific things have shown consequences to the people who commit them. Even John Wick who go out on a killing spree for revenge has to go through three more movies dealing with the consequences of it, and they are not pretty. There are some that managed to get away with it, though. It's called Karma Houdini. Look it up.
// How are you going to recognize that something is bad if you are not shown or told the downsides?
Wow. You either have zero media literacy, or you are a sociopath. You don't have to be told that something is bad. You just need to have some empathy to know why doing bad things to others is bad. When you get stabbed, it hurts. The same applies to anyone who gets stabbed. That's how it feels. That's empathy. That is a basic human function. The fact that you have to be told by a piece of fiction that murder is bad is a dead giveaway of how empty and morally bankrupt your morals are.
Anti-fiction people really have no concepts of nuance or even empathy.
// I am starting to think that depiction is endorsement.
Okay, then. By that logic, fans of action movies endorse beating people in real life, right? No. Fans of a certain media endorse having more of that media, not the media being applied in real life. Fans of slasher films do not endorse real murder. They do however endorse more media like it.
// Showing X means telling people doing X is something worth being shown.
Wow. You almost got that. You are so close to approaching a nuanced conversation.
// If you don't want to endorse what you are showing, you have to show its downsides, and even then, it's not guaranteed.
Every media that I consume depicting or glorifying horrific things have shown consequences to the people who commit them. Even John Wick who go out on a killing spree for revenge has to go through three more movies dealing with the consequences of it, and they are not pretty. There are some that managed to get away with it, though. It's called Karma Houdini. Look it up.
// How are you going to recognize that something is bad if you are not shown or told the downsides?
Wow. You either have zero media literacy, or you are a sociopath. You don't have to be told that something is bad. You just need to have some empathy to know why doing bad things to others is bad. When you get stabbed, it hurts. The same applies to anyone who gets stabbed. That's how it feels. That's empathy. That is a basic human function. The fact that you have to be told by a piece of fiction that murder is bad is a dead giveaway of how empty and morally bankrupt your morals are.
