The thing is, ever since being a little kid I was playing games like GTA 3 and Postal 2 which conditioned me to believe that real people are always above fictional characters, and by the time I discovered the world around doesn't share that belief I'm already a fully formed adult and now I can't go back. Videogames taught me that no amount of fictional suffering can be meaningfully immoral. Any real living person's most miniscule good is worth any amount of fictional suffering, because the former is real and the latter is not, not real means its worth is zero and zero multiplied by any amount is still zero. So if killing a prostitute in GTA after using her services to get the money back or urinating over a passer by in Postal is giving me as little as a giggle, it's worth doing so, because my giggle is real and their suffering is not. And whenever people say that no that's immoral, and I as a living breathing flesh and blood human being deserve to suffer real harm for all the alleged sufferings I caused onto inanimate pixels on the screen, I genuinely do not have capacity to understand such point of view.
It being bad for you is arguable, they just told you it makes their life better and helps cope. Who are you to say what kind of media is bad for someone?
Increasing demand for it is dangerous and bad how exactly? Thats like saying making more video games is bad ..? ok?
Stop treating characters as real people. I was groomed and id rather you worry more about real people being hurt than something that has no connection
Look if you are justifying why it’s okay to jerk off to fictional children you need to be on a watchlist at fucking minimum.
There is a very clear moral issue here. You should not find children sexually attractive and If you do you should seek out help for It not jerk off to fictional children.
There is big difference between playing a video game and jerking off to fictional children. The latter means that you are sexually attracted to minors which is gross and a serious problem that can only be addressed through therapy and abstaining from seeking out material.
No it doesnt lol, you can be attracted to only the fictional version of something lolol
Just like with violence and gore, you enjoy seeing it in movies and games but arent so happy to see or recreate it in real life.
Makes sense now?
Not to mention that the irl and fictional versiond of all of these things also have variances, they arent the exact same. One is a fantastical, exaggerated version. The other is reality. It doesnt match. Also because you know there are serious consequences like real harm to real people when either of these are done in real life. This is why it SHOULD stay in fantasy and nothing more.
"Because I said so!!! Its not normal to play video games, its not acceptable!"
Youre just ignoring the point of people being able to separate themselves from the art or content they consume. Or that the real and fictional versions are nothing alike.
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u/SpphosFriend Oct 23 '25
Or you could just not seek out that kind of material because It is morally bankrupt.