Newsflash: people and good people are not synonymous.
If you portray a villain, that villain has thoughts, emotions, desires. Maybe even loved ones. They have things they want. They have reasons for what they do. And none of this excuses their villainous acts.
If you portray a good person, all of the same things apply. Thoughts, emotions, desires, loved ones, things they want, reasons, etc. And when you look at the acts they commit, you think to yourself, âThat is a good person. I consider this person heroic, someone worth emulating.â Whereas when you see what the villain does, you think, âMan, that is fucked up.â
The entire difference between a good person and a bad person is not whether or not they are people, but whether the things they do and their reasons for doing them are good or bad. So you can portray a bad person, who abuses people, as having emotions, and desires, and thoughts, and they can still be a bad person.Â
So yeah. The OP says âbad people should be written as if they are people.â This is true. âNormalizing abuseâ is what happens when you write bad people as if they are incomprehensible evil monsters with no common humanity with the rest of us, because this tells abuse victims, most of whom love their abusers, âYouâre not really being abused because the person you love is not a bad person! Bad people are 100% evil monsters and the person who is hurting you obviously has feelings!â No. Bad people are people. When you write an abuser, write them as a person, with thoughts and feelings, because real abuse victims know that their abusers are people, and you donât want to convince them that their abusers canât be abusers because only monsters are abusers. You want them to understand that abusers are human too, because they already know the person abusing them is human. What they donât know is whether or not they can consider whatâs happening to them to be abuse.Â
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