#I've seen so many people say that all dead dove should be banned on ao3

[youling-the-ghost]

And I feel like this just circled back to the competition for morality that's become so common on the internet. You shouldn't read or create anything that can even be perceived as immoral because that would be romanticising it, and creating anything that could potentially make people uncomfortable is wrong because entertainment should be for everyone. With this philosophy being so rampant online, the books or movies or shows that make the audience uncomfortable in any way gets labelled as "disgusting" and the creator is deemed a creep.

To these people, it's not about doing the right thing or advocating for better representation, it's about feeling better about themselves. Sure, some might believe that they're doing the right thing, but at their core it's all about maintaining that sense of self-righteousness. "I'm calling out this horrible human being so I'm being a good and moral person."

If it's actually about making a change, then this sort of uncomfortable/disturbing media is one of the last things that should be targeted because they reveal the true atrocities of human nature. We find them uncomfortable because we don't want to be exposed to the cruelty that some people face for simply existing. By censoring this type of stories, we're blinding ourselves to the reality of our world.

It's perfectly fine if you as an individual don't want to read a book or watch a film with disturbing themes, but calling it disgusting and trying to defame the creator of that book or film is just not the way to go.

I think some people forget that some literature and some media is meant to be deeply uncomfortable and unsettling. It's meant to make you have a very visceral reaction to it. If you genuinely can't handle these stories then you are under no obligation to consume them but acting as if they have no purpose or as if people don't have a right to tell these stories, stories that often relate to the darkest or most disturbing parts of life, then you should do some introspection.