[caption id="attachment_68913" align="aligncenter" width="300"] The material we produce is fanciful, even cartoonish in many regards; there is nothing realistic about it. Our viewers know this. Far from normalizing violence, it relegates it squarely into the realm of fantasy.
Time and time again we harp to our members that as long as you don’t harm anyone, as long as you keep things safely in the realm of fantasy, that you use the fiction and imagery found on these sites as a mere virutal realization of a fantasy, you are fine. Harm no one, keep it in fantasy, and you are okay, you are a decent human being.
Unfortunately, there are people in this world, in all walks of life, who value their own pleasure more than they value the well being of other people. Such monstrous individuals will do monstrous things and so, thankfully, are an infinitesimal minority within any gathering of human beings. A person who has these violent fantasies, however, and yet does NOT value their own pleasure more than the life and well being of other people, such a person will NOT harm another person. It is not the absence or presence of such fantasies that drives people to acts of violence or not, it is the absence or presence of a conscience.[/caption]