Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation

[shinta|hikari]

I don't want to mistakenly assume your thoughts, so I want to clarify some things.

I mean the excuse of "it's a fictional world where they say that horrible thing is okay, so it makes that horrible thing okay" doesn't magically give it a pass, regardless of what travesty you want to plug in there.

For example, all the isekai that are like "We have slavery, and slavery is good and the slaves love being your slaves!" You don't just have to shrug and go "Oh well! That's that world!". Like, no! That's not just a reality that happened and you just have to accept it! Somebody WROTE that world to be that way! Someone sat down and created a world where people just love being slaves. And you don't have to give that writer a pass for that. Because it's fucking weird!

Are you saying that authors that write about topics that are unethical or immoral based on our current lens as acceptable in their fictional world are bad? I use the word bad because "weird" is not very clear. More specifically, are these authors bad people (morally) or bad writers (creatively or in terms of skill)?

I'm not looking to "forbid" anything. I'm just not willing to cut a character slack just because an awful thing is a normal part of their world.

Are you saying we should judge all characters and their actions based on our current lens of morals regardless of their setting and culture?