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This is actually from 2022, but I missed it back in the day. This is quite important research imo, and very relevant lately. Link to the paper itself: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0747563222001637

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[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 124 points 23 hours ago (5 children)

if someone is not able to distinguish between fiction (regardless of the medium) and reality, then the problem is much deeper than pearl-clutching religious fanatics insist on believing, and will NOT be solved by abolishing all the "bad" fiction

i would argue that religion itself plays a large part in developing these problematic attitudes from early childhood, especially towards sex

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 73 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

You mean constantly displaying sexuality as evil and interest in it as sinful leads to a unhealthy sexuality? Say it ain't so

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 26 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)
  1. set the rules in opposition to fundamental human (i.e., mammalian) instincts
    1b. punishment is unimaginable suffering for eternity
  2. everyone lives a guilt-ridden life full of shame
  3. leverage for control in every aspect of life (i.e., slave congregation)
  4. ???
  5. profit. a fucking lot

side effects of psychological damage, suicide, sociopathic tendencies, etc. don't matter in the slightest to the people collecting your tithes and controlling your behavior-- so, rather the same as social media

tl;dr: people in a perpetual state of unfulfillable desire are easy to control

[–] Nima@leminal.space 33 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

i think if less tolerance for religion became more commonplace, it might be better for mental health in general honestly.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 14 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah. It's always been perplexing me that people who seem mentally okay in other ways can seem to think fiction and reality are basically the same thing.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 6 points 18 hours ago

Glad to see this opinion organically. I have been feeling like its moving more and more toward censure. I always thought japan pretty much had it right and then they took a step back. If its not real, its not real. I honestly don't care about any fictional stuff be it writing or painting.

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 6 points 19 hours ago

the owner class wants it that way. if you can get people to throw reason, facts, evidence, and everything else out the window in order to genuinely believe that 2+2=5, then you can tell them anything you want, and they will kill people over the matter. see: literally all of maga

[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 30 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

if someone is not able to distinguish between fiction (regardless of the medium) and reality, then the problem is much deeper than pearl-clutching religious fanatics insist on believing, and will NOT be solved by abolishing all the “bad” fiction

We've been trying to make this exact argument to the exact same group of people since the earliest days of D&D and I'm sure someone was having the same conversation about some other thing before that. 😠

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 14 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

They used to think novels were bad for women in the 18th and 19th centuries bc they worried they were too dumb to separate fact from fantasy

https://archive.nytimes.com/op-talk.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/when-novels-were-bad-for-you/

[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 5 points 17 hours ago

Don't worry, maga will get us back there soon enough...

[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 16 points 22 hours ago

not able to distinguish between fiction (regardless of the medium) and reality

religious fanatics

The line is a circle