Are you able to turn off your moral compass when watching anime?

Just wondering - how do you even turn off a compass?

@Tirinchas By breaking it of course. You just gotta hope it can be repaired.

The majority of anime is too unrealistic to put any weight behind said fictional morals.

"Are you able to turn off your moral compass when watching anime?"

You don't need to tho.
IRL you may be forced to do that in order to survive, anime on the other hand is entertainment. You can always drop certain title and search for something which suits better your mood and taste. You can be yourself when you watch anime.

Remember people who legit threatened Jack Gleeson in real life so frequently and were so toxic to him for playing King Joffrey in Game of Thrones that he quit being an actor all together?

Yea. People just cant separate fiction from reality. They need to get some help or something.

Like, if theres a popular anime about a protagonist who just rapes all his enemies, I'm not going to decide to not watch because "rape bad, therefore this is bad. oke no watch. I go on social media and talk about it." Kind of similar to a certain someone in this thread. No, Im gonna not watch because the anime looks like shit, or theres nothing more to the story its boring, or "he keeps no diff-ing his enemies, this is boring", etc.

The only thing I care about in media with a negative morality story is if it makes sense and is interesting, or is just a cheap nothing literary device. Another example, Attack on Titan. Most people dont care that Eren is trying to genocide a race of people and has a kiddy breakdown at the end. It makes sense why he would do that, and his journey throughout that is interesting. This is coming from someone who doesnt like Attack on Titan nor Eren btw.

@PeripheralVision Yes, obviously there's a difference. But the point still stands. Obviously something like a piece of war propaganda advocating for some fucked shit is different from something like The Sopranos. But it's still possible to watch either without agreeing with what's happening on screen.

@PeripheralVision It kinda just means what it sounds like. It's just simply enjoying something you know is messed up in real life. That's it. The opposite would be avoiding something because it has content you aren't comfortable with. Whether or not it's pushing some kinda agenda is actually irrelevant. All that matters is your willingness to consume something with some possibly messed up content.

@FanofAction

I mean, even television shows for children have violent content.



There is no true "putting aside of morals", unless we are vilifying the very idea of depiction, rather than solely the acts depicted themselves. Not a position I have not heard before, but mostly from pearl clutching religious figures, who are an extremely small minority, and fools on Twitter, I suppose. Violence in our media is just too ubiquitous for this to be a mainstream opinion.

Most of us at the very least like cartoon violence, but it is not like violence of that is any more acceptable in the real world simply because it avoids graphic depiction of injuries. Going back to your original statement.



Perhaps I can more accurately say "I do not understand who or what you are arguing against". I mean, these two positions are not interchangeable.

1. It is wrong to be violent.
   
2. It is wrong to view violent content.
   

As I see it, we cannot exactly put aside morals we do not have in the first place, and most people do not believe in the second statement. I am trying not to be horribly pedantic, I just have a tough time understanding this conversation.

@PeripheralVision I don't want to sound rude, and maybe this is on me for being clear enough, but I honestly don't know what other angle I can try and explain this from. I feel like too much weight is being put on the whole "morality, values and beliefs" thing. Let's just ignore that. This is about how comfortable you are with what you are consuming. That's as simple as I can make it.