every time this happens it's like someone is announcing "the problem with having real sex with a real dog, is that the dog is the wrong shape, therefore we need to ban the wrong shape" and it makes me feel fucking insane
[my posting levels exceed maximum safe tolerances] this happens because america is saturated with the christian notion of "sin" wherein stuff you merely think about is on the same level as actions, so art of dubious sex is equivalent to the sex. but art of violence is fine because violence is fine
sometimes i think about how the aesthetics of [bad thing] are often punished more than the actual [bad thing]
see also: gambling-themed games vs lootboxes
Purity culture among furries is crazy because furry characters are always going to have some level of animal features, otherwise they wouldn't be furry characters and they'd just be human characters