"I don't support it in real life"
Then stop normalizing it Then stop romanticizing it Then stop pretending it’s “hot” Then stop pretending it’s “cute”
will you ever understand that fiction is NOT reality
the brain reacts to fictional situtations they same way it does with real situations
a collection of links to articles about how fiction affects reality
but yeah, fiction totally doesnt impact reailty
Believe it or not people are able to tell fiction and reality apart, this shitty argument has literally been made since the existence of fictional literature because ‘when you read books you can’t know what’s actually real anymore’. I don’t know what exactly you are trying to oppose here, but censoring media isn’t gonna solve shit, education is.
did…….. did you even read the links?
The links don’t prove anything remotely close to what you imply, or else we’d all be psychotic. All it says is that fictional situations evoke real emotions, not that the sense of reality is lost. A sense gained evolutively at like 5 years of age. Sadness at a fictional character’s death makes you sad, it doesn’t mean you’re gonna go buy a casket. Easy, I think?
I mean are you honestly that stupid or just dishonest? Oh we went to watch a horror film, we’re all basically murderers now~~ (that your idea of epistemic validation is a journalism article you’re not even competent enough to interpret should’ve given me a warning… let’s just not mention the disaster that is the second link)
@antielricest
Lol. Someone else linked me to the same post, and I actually made the effort to read all the sources, and what these sources basically says is that:
reading strengthens our empathy
reading is a great way to aks questions about society
reading evokes emotions in us and does, in fact, stimulate our brain
Yes, something happens to you when you engage with a piece of fiction. You know, that’s pretty much what Aristotele meant when he wrote about reaching catharsis through fear and pity.
In modern terms, he would probably say that fiction satisfies different emtional needs by making the reader empathize with and relate to its characters.
Funny, right, how an ancient Greek philosopher already knew that 2300 years ago, but today’s millennials condemn the immorality of fiction much like religious conservatives of all times …
here are some better links to studies about fiction affecting reality. these are peimarily about 50 shades of gray.
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