I saw you had posted, something along the lines of, books that explore dark themes should be read in order for us to learn evil in this world, and to learn that it's wrong. But fiction doesn't affect reality, then why would anybody learn anything from exploring dark themes in a book? Learning means being affected. Tbh tbh the biggest importance of that applies to learning IRL/receiving information, not from books. How do these ideas coexist with one another? How does "fiction doesn't affect reality" and "we can learn from fiction" line up lol? I don't mean this as an argument, just curious as to what u meant
when I say “fiction doesn’t affect reality”, what I mean is “if someone lets fiction affect their reality in a way that they believe bad things in fiction are okay in real life because they’re portrayed as such in fiction, then chances are that with or without the fiction they consume, they are already troubled and they need help. but their inability to separate fiction from reality is not artists’ responsibility. because artists are not their parents or babysitters.” I have always said this in most of my posts that say fiction doesn’t affect reality.
normal people can learn why these bad things in fiction are wrong in real life (or if they just want to consume them for entertainment, that’s fine too), fiction has helped me understand more about how manipulation works, for instance. that’s how fiction affects me in a positive way (so I know when/if someone tries to manipulate me). but normal people don’t read a fic with cannibalism and think “oh! okay, I should start eating people too!” that’s how fiction doesn’t affect reality.
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