- Jan 6, 2019
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Ah, now here's some interesting topics of discussion: the moral and ethical principles of actions taken toward characters in media and how people that consume that media react to it.
For some reason adult media somehow ends up with ethical and moral rules applied differently than other media, which has always been strange to me. In a fictional story people can be described as graphically killing, having sex in bizarre ways, committing bestiality or incest or even abusing children, and all of this only serves to provoke responses from the consumers of that story. People can appreciate the emotions it provokes in them, become invested, and are often strongly influenced by the story as a result.
But if you dare try to do the exact same thing, but in a setting that is supposed to provide sexual gratification to the consumer? Oh, people react much more strongly, and rules get applied more strictly.
I think it's nonsense. If you create a person in your mind that only exists in there, you can do whatever you want to that person without hurting anyone, and think and feel about it however you like. That should not be unethical nor immoral. Likewise, writing down what you do to the person in your mind still doesn't hurt anyone, and should not be wrong. Even if you draw or animate that person, it's still a fictional person that doesn't think, feel or have rights. Traditional media try to convey thoughts and feelings to consumers in one way, and is regarded as perfectly acceptable; adult media try to convey (often the same) thoughts and feelings to consumers another way, and is regarded as unacceptable. As I said: it's nonsense. All fiction should be free to be whatever its creator wants it to be, as long as it is purely fictitious.
And that's not even going into factors of style (where a creator's art-style may genuinely just tend to make people look very young or old regardless of age, intentionally or unintentionally) and in-universe deviations from the norms of ours (such as where one condition or another (genetic manipulation, vampirism, being an elf/fairy/whatever) might make it so that characters can appear a different age than they actually are).
Getting up in arms over things you don't agree with or are unethical in fiction is pointless. It's not real. The story as a cohesive entity is real, and if a particular event or character detracts from the story I think calling it out is proper, but really... having sex with a fairy, regardless of what she happens to look like, is entirely in line with the story of this game. I'm not personally looking forward to it (though I will freely admit that what I want the most is more Anna-content, preferably something that involves better, consensual, less expensive vaginal penetration), but bemoaning how wrong it is or how sick people are for potentially enjoying it is pointless.
Pixie isn't real; it can't hurt you, and you can't hurt it. Everybody wins.
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For some reason adult media somehow ends up with ethical and moral rules applied differently than other media, which has always been strange to me. In a fictional story people can be described as graphically killing, having sex in bizarre ways, committing bestiality or incest or even abusing children, and all of this only serves to provoke responses from the consumers of that story. People can appreciate the emotions it provokes in them, become invested, and are often strongly influenced by the story as a result.
But if you dare try to do the exact same thing, but in a setting that is supposed to provide sexual gratification to the consumer? Oh, people react much more strongly, and rules get applied more strictly.
I think it's nonsense. If you create a person in your mind that only exists in there, you can do whatever you want to that person without hurting anyone, and think and feel about it however you like. That should not be unethical nor immoral. Likewise, writing down what you do to the person in your mind still doesn't hurt anyone, and should not be wrong. Even if you draw or animate that person, it's still a fictional person that doesn't think, feel or have rights. Traditional media try to convey thoughts and feelings to consumers in one way, and is regarded as perfectly acceptable; adult media try to convey (often the same) thoughts and feelings to consumers another way, and is regarded as unacceptable. As I said: it's nonsense. All fiction should be free to be whatever its creator wants it to be, as long as it is purely fictitious.
And that's not even going into factors of style (where a creator's art-style may genuinely just tend to make people look very young or old regardless of age, intentionally or unintentionally) and in-universe deviations from the norms of ours (such as where one condition or another (genetic manipulation, vampirism, being an elf/fairy/whatever) might make it so that characters can appear a different age than they actually are).
Getting up in arms over things you don't agree with or are unethical in fiction is pointless. It's not real. The story as a cohesive entity is real, and if a particular event or character detracts from the story I think calling it out is proper, but really... having sex with a fairy, regardless of what she happens to look like, is entirely in line with the story of this game. I'm not personally looking forward to it (though I will freely admit that what I want the most is more Anna-content, preferably something that involves better, consensual, less expensive vaginal penetration), but bemoaning how wrong it is or how sick people are for potentially enjoying it is pointless.
Pixie isn't real; it can't hurt you, and you can't hurt it. Everybody wins.
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