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Insisting that there is nothing questionable about works of science fiction/fantasy that have inherently evil races that it’s morally right to exterminate and saying you’re just being a sensitive snowflake if you find the concept off-putting
I think we have at least two of them on this board who are really defensive about the validity of Justified Genocide ™ in Goblin Slayer.
I can never bring myself to make a work that’s not morally ambiguous. I don’t even like playing a morally upstanding MC as a good thing. My impulse was to exercise him of it with complex situations. I’ll write pieces of shit (e.g. I like to use collateral damage to get back at people I don’t like), but it’s because they’re pieces of shit for one reason or another (see: not their inherited nature).
I thought about trying to write a morally simple novel and couldn’t bring myself to do it. Best I can do is “these capitalists need to be stopped”
I think it’s much sussier because it has sexual violence throughout along with the genocide business. Shield Hero is sexist but surprisingly close to the (disgusting) average for such fiction once you get past that first episode (which is fucked up pandering to red pillers). Like, idk, think about the typical isekai and it’s astonishingly objectifying, to the point that it really feels like the MC views women in the fantasy world as truly being NPCs who mainly exist in reference to his sexuality, or maybe the MC is a Good Guy ™ but the shot composition and animation framecount demonstrate that the viewer is not meant to have nearly so noble an attitude.
On the other hand, there’s the pseudo-isekai Redo of Healer and the actual isekai Slave Harem in the Labyrinth of Another World, both of which are much worse but also essentially soft porn and therefore less likely to be discussed publicly.
Shield Hero is especially bad because its sexism is so close to (the incel’s fantasy of) the real world. The titular hero has his life ruined by the dreaded False Rape Accusation and then fixes all his problems by finding (buying) a tradwife (underage slave)
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Ah, but have you considered that because the characters say sexual violence is bad, that means its lurid depiction of sexual violence is good and also not lurid because I totally think women’s spines bend that way! Are you saying sexual violence shouldn’t be depicted? Should such topics be censored?! Because clearly if it is to be depicted, this is the best way to do it!
