/lit/ - Literature

>>16240295
>Is it morally wrong to do so?
what the fuck? why the fuck would it be? are you insane?

I see no wrong in reading stories about people facing their fear.

>>16240300
I dunno. I don't like scary movies, but I've been reading Cyclonopedia and it's been great. And Dracula is my favorite fictional book. But it seems strange/demented to find pleasure in these things, you know? Like we shouldn't enjoy the thrill from horror.

>>16240316
What the fuck? You know what, fuck it. Go ahead and castrate yourself from the horror genre, it doesn't need people like you fucking it up.

>>16240303
I get what you're saying. To me, Dracula epitomizes this type of horror, where it's still at heart an story of sacrifice and triumph. "Hopeful horror" is something I like.

>>16240322
A bit harsh, but ok. I just feel like a healthy person wouldn't be as interested in these types of books as I've become lately.

>>16240316
Were you raised catholic?

>>16240330
there's a reason why horror is a genre and there's a reason why it's such a profitable genre. Slasher and splatter movies have always been popular. Look at Saw, Hostel, Wrong Turn, and a million other examples.
You don't have to worry, or be ashamed. Your moral character is decided by what you do, not what you like.

I’ve never liked it either. And maybe christian value systems help to enforce it, but the initial revulsion ought to be enough I would think.
It’s always such a downer.

>>16240295
That's a shite photograph

>>16240381
No, I'm not Christian, and while my family and I are religious, my family members have no problem watching horror stuff. I've been the odd one out.

>>16240398
>Your moral character is decided by what you do, not what you like.
That is a good point anon :)

>>16240412
Saved it just to spite you.

>>16240412
I shamelessly ripped it off a /comfy/ pic thread on /x/ a while back

>>16240398

"Your moral character is decided by what you do, not what you like."

Wrong dude, even choosing to like messed up things like certain types of extreme bondage porn also determines your moral character and probably diminishes it. So if you're into twisted and sick stuff, then you're kind of like Robert Daly from Black Mirror's U.S.S. Callister show and that guy doesn't have much of a moral character.

>>16240316
Are you retarded?

>>16240486
That's emotion talking. Ted Bundy was a lifeline operator and actually talked a few people out of suicide. Point is you can't blanket people in a belief like yours

>>16240494
no

>>16240316
I've never found the appeal of horrors either. Why normies like them so much? Cheap jumpscares, pants-on-head retarded main characters - it's just torture.
Ofc it's different story about the books. But my question is not if horrors are moral or not, my question is: why would I want to be scared anyway? To have trouble sleeping at night? I just don't get it.

We move between fear and love. Attraction and repulsion. Advancement and retreat. An obsession with fear can be pathological in the sense that you can become stagnant and detached by fearing too much. A connoisseur of fear will only have a cabinet of things that shouldn't be touched. We can "love" our fear, in the way it strengthens our perception of ourselves, how we are separate and different from other things. Ultimately fear can never be more potent than love, which is why it's rightly considered lower, both as art and as an emotion.

>>16240295
kys my friend :>)