I have a similar thought process. I don’t think fiction automatically means you are a certain way but it does inherently affect you as a person. In small and bigger ways but “fiction doesn’t affect reality” is too straightforward. If fiction didn’t affect reality then why do we have to fight for women and other minorities to be depicted as their own people. As you said propaganda being used as a tool to get you to think a certain way. I think it’d be more accurate to say, “you can make it so fiction doesn’t dictate who you are morally, but it still literally still affects you in some way” but I always thought fiction isn’t reality people are kinda just saying that to not critically think about what they are consuming. You don’t need to think super deeply but it does help to know why you like a type of fiction, its problems, its positives, and other.
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PUMPKIN GUTZ
I hate when people say fiction does affect reality because it does and there have been studies that prove this đź’€ and when you give them an example of fiction affecting reality they dismiss it but don't tell you why it doesn't apply. Just because it isn't a fanfiction doesn't mean it's not applicable to the argument, it's not "reading non-con will make you a rapist" it's "fiction affects reality." It objectively does. Otherwise how does propaganda work? Bigoted ideals portrayed in fiction that influence the consumer to taking in those ideals? Even just watching an episode of a show making you happy. It is a fictional thing having an effect on you and the real world. It's not a means for censorship but to act like it doesn't affect reality is just denial really.
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