Current Events > Fiction Affects Reality. Agree or disagree?

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RKO_OrtonBoi
08/30/22 12:13:20 PM
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Do you believe Fiction affects reality?


https://twitter.com/ASAPfugo/status/1528072126728753155

Slenderman stabbings, Jaws, L*licon, and Bugs Bunny are things that have made people act out in heinous, evil ways just because they viewed it so I genuinely believe fiction affects reality. Fiction influences people and it influences the weak minded and feeble.

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Questionmarktarius
08/30/22 12:14:22 PM
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Orwell and Rand screwed up a lot of highschool kids for life.
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MachineJaipur
08/30/22 12:15:11 PM
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Religion is fiction (even if you believe yours is real, it makes the rest fiction outside of historically verified events) that has led to the death of billions of people
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SSJKirby
08/30/22 12:18:26 PM
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Monkey see monkey do

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InTheEyesOfFire
08/30/22 12:20:59 PM
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Depends on the content for sure. Look at Neuromancer, a sci-fi book that coined terms we use often now in technological points.

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Lil_Bit83
08/30/22 12:22:59 PM
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Sometimes. People create wonderful things in fiction that have become reality, although not necessarily always in that person's lifetime. Invention is one part science, one part technical know-how, and one part imagination.

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NeonOctopus
08/30/22 12:27:44 PM
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you never hear about people doing Sub Zero's fatality IRL by ripping a head off with a spinal cord, so no

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2JNxeWO_wA

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MedeaLysistrata
08/30/22 12:28:18 PM
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What does it mean to say fiction doesn't affect reality. The ideas behind the fiction are as real as the ideas they inspire. This person isn't going to say ideas aren't real.

The fictional events might not affect reality though. Erdedy's vacation is not a substantial force that causes things to happen... Unless...

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blackrider76
08/30/22 12:31:49 PM
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Bringing back a three-month-old tweet that shows the perpetually online Twitter crowd who thinks its fine to harass real people over the ideas they create in fiction. Like the Genshin fandom harassing VAs because of proshipping or character design bad and you voicing them makes you responsible somehow.

These people confuse fiction affecting reality with endorsement.

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RKO_OrtonBoi
08/30/22 12:36:55 PM
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blackrider76 posted...
Bringing back a three-month-old tweet that shows the perpetually online Twitter crowd who thinks its fine to harass real people over the ideas they create in fiction. Like the Genshin fandom harassing VAs because of proshipping or character design bad and you voicing them makes you responsible somehow.

These people confuse fiction affecting reality with endorsement.

There's still some truth to those actions. Proshipping is inherently dangerous and it hurts real victims. And it is one step away from real, heinous actions. All it takes is someone getting bored of the drawn content before they move on to someone real.

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blackrider76
08/30/22 12:37:36 PM
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RKO_OrtonBoi posted...
Proshipping is inherently dangerous and it hurts real victims.

Ah, this is a shitpost. Gotcha.

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Tote_All_
08/30/22 12:42:09 PM
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RKO_OrtonBoi posted...
just because they viewed it

Literally never. The viewed it + severe issues.
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Razuberii
08/30/22 12:55:35 PM
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how braindead do you have to be to agree with this nonsensical statement

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Hayame_Zero
08/30/22 12:59:05 PM
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Many tech creators in the 80s and 90s modeled their concepts after Star Trek

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Damn_Underscore
08/30/22 1:00:00 PM
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Jack Thompson was right

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Cheater87
08/30/22 1:10:33 PM
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Nope, they tried banning video games and movies because they said they warp minds.

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epik_fail1
08/30/22 1:28:06 PM
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Razuberii posted...
how braindead do you have to be to agree with this nonsensical statement

This statement is not entirely false, but playing Mortal Kombat never made me want to replicate what I saw in real life. Games like FFX and Tales of Symphonia back then were a huge reason I started to question my parent's religion and I am thankful for them

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hockeybub89
08/30/22 1:33:21 PM
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Well of course it does. Look at Trump supporters

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Tote_All_
08/30/22 1:33:51 PM
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epik_fail1 posted...
Games like FFX and Tales of Symphonia back then were a huge reason I started to question my parent's religion and I am thankful for th3mm.

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Smiffwilm
08/30/22 1:38:17 PM
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Tote_All_ posted...
Stay away from the Summoner!
You're a bad man!

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KeeperOfShadows
08/30/22 2:00:45 PM
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Yes, though the issue is usually more with the people being influenced than the fiction itself. No one sane plays a violent video game and then decides its ok to attack people, to use the example others posted.

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Seaman_Prime
08/30/22 2:05:20 PM
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DBZ has made countless guys want to workout
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GuerrillaSoldier
08/30/22 2:06:29 PM
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anything influences anyone who is influenced by something

people find motivation in literally anything. soup being too cold. walls being too tall. colors being too saturated. games being violent. people being abusive. the list is literally endless.

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