AwkwardlySet
Literotica Guru
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I was mostly suggesting that you are using present-day world as a reference point, whilst even if we take things in general, there are terrible periods in human history that span over a whole continent, at least. But yeah, let's drop it since it does seem like it is going nowhere.This discussion feels increasingly pointless. You seem to be suggesting that if the setting of a story is not itself worse than the worst possible event in reality then it is not a valid counterclaim to your original assertion of fantasy worlds never being worse than the real one. My assertion is that if the setting in general is demonstrably worse than the real world, then the depths to which it sinks are likely to be correspondingly lower, even if the author doesn't feel the need to drag us there to witness such atrocities. It feels like the goalposts are kind of moving, though, with each additional clarification, so I think we're just talking past each other and suggest we table the issue as unresolvable.