Why should context matter? · 10:55pm Dec 21st, 2021
If you bully or harm fictional characters for no other reason than that you hate them, does that make you a bully in real life?
The reason I never considered stuff like this is simple...
Why?
They're cartoon characters. They haven't the same civil or protective rights like a human does. So how can bullying a lifeless and non-existent cartoon be the equivalent of doing ti to someone real?
*Punches Twilight across the face*
See? I punched Twilight... did anybody REALLY get punched? Did they? I don't see how the context matters here.
So I made Beast Boy pull off Flurry heart's head. You may call it sick, or psychotic, but it's still not real. No REAL baby got beheaded, so why act like the context matters when it can't? In the end, you just don't like what is written or the reasons WHY, which STILL does not make it REAL bullying.
That's why I didn't add "IT DEPENDS" because it doesn't matter to me, and even if DOES matter, then it gets too complicated. I can't tell what is or what isn't. (Then again, knowing all my retarded haters... they'll just sulking is bullying)
All I want is a simple ALL YES... or ALL NO answer.
And I'll also tell you this... if "It DEPENDS" wins...
...I'm afraid that means it's 100% "YES, you are a bully" because I know people will make their excuses to say "Yes it does make you a bully." period.
I won't do any "In the MIDDLES" with this one
Red or Green
No in-between.
I think the main reason people declare it real bullying is because when they get attached to certain characters, they began to perceive them as real, so any bad thing that happens to the characters, cannon or non-cannon, is viewed as an attack, is kinda where accusation fics are born.