#focusing on age related stuff because thats commonly the focus of antis

[whitehairedanimeboyfriend]

Sorry for the ask, but I'd like to straight up ask someone.

So I may be misunderstanding, but proshipping is just saying, "do what you want in fiction," no? Why is this controversial? I completely understand having squicks and blocking people over that, but threatening lives over this seems way over the line. I hate feet fetish content, but I can just... filter that out and not bother enjoyers. I get a lot of content is not so easy on the brain, but is it not better for people to throw those thoughts on a page? Personally would rather people vent it out through fictional means than be eaten by those thoughts.

Am I missing something or is this another case of people creating a wildfire over simple concepts?

You would think, wouldn't you, anon?

There's a lot of reasons why antis think the way they do. Most basically is that humans instinctively assign morality to the feeling of disgust. "If I'm disgusted by this thing it must be bad." Basically everything else after that is justification for this thought process.

Some common justifications for the mindset:

Children can be exposed to this content.

Adult groomers could use the content as material to further bond and groom their child victims.

Anyone that regularly consumes perverse fictional content may become desensitized to the disgust all humans should feel towards it and therefore will eventually try to act out these fantasies in real life.

Sexual arousal has a unique ability to corrupt people in this way and it's not the same as playing a violent videogame or listening to true crime podcasts.

Of course, examining these points objectively leads us to the following conclusions:

Children can be exposed to any graphic content, regardless of the "morality" of said content. It happens all the time and has been happening since graphic content was first depicted. Kids get curious, especially about things we try to keep them away from.

Abusers can and will use anything to bond with their victims. Maybe it is a adult/child ship or noncon fantasy. Maybe it's My Little Pony or Steven Universe or comic books. Maybe it's Game of Thrones or Steven King. It can be anything the victim cares about. Contentious material is not uniquely effective in this manner.

Disgust should not be what guides one's moral compass regardless. While there may be people that eventually become abusers that start out with fictional material, the order of operations is "I want to abuse kids. -> I will read/watch/look at fictional content until I get access or opportunity to exploit kids -> I now have the opportunity to abuse victims" rather than "I'm interested in exploring dark material, perhaps including fictional abuse of underage individuals -> I can now no longer control myself around kids and I'm a ticking timebomb."

This is literally just Puritanical Christian beliefs and isn't true.