Question regarding rule against "encouraging violence"

[Stimtheone]

Before I get into this 300 page story, I am concerned that one part of the story that is quite the important backdrop might break the rule of "Works that promote or glorify hate, intolerance, or violence towards any person or group." Now, before you get your pitchforks and hateful replies off, consider the exact scenario as I am concerned it MIGHT break the rule, but I am not certain if this counts. So let us bring the exact summary of the situation.

A powerful being gives one man a choice of three options regarding the fact that Earth has declared war to a quite benevolent empire simply because the ones in power do not want to adopt methods that might threaten their positions. Option one is for the being to just... not intervene. The second is for the being to encourage the empire to actually respond in kind and go curbstomp the planet in warfare that is actually being treated like squashing a riot. The third... and the choice that will be made... is for this being to personally pick out a long list of people which he believes do harm to society and go execute them personally. And then they go and do so. There will be updates on the progress, but the focus will be more on the effects rather than the targets. Heck, the guys done in will not even get names.

Race, gender, culture or political affiliation is not even being considered or mentioned here. But the question is if "harmful individuals as dictated by a certain party with no concern for their other features and a good degree of fairness and benevolence" counts as a group which one should not glorify violence towards.

TLDR: Are evil people considered a group we should not encourage violence against?

 

[Djmac1031]

I think fictitious violence in a story is fine. I believe the issue would be if you were to mention specific real world people and encourage violence towards them.

 

[lovecraft68]

I don't think its an issue.

Violence is okay here, the rule is its not supposed to be done in a manner that inspires sexual titillation(But they ignore this on a regular basis) but technically that's the rule and you're not coming close to it. Seems kind of mild honestly.

But I have to add the tone of your post is eye rolling. So concerned with offending someone or looking like some type of ist. The woke movement has completely destroyed creativity and free thought in every area of entertainment. Just as planned. Considering your theme is about one culture trying to destroy another there is a sad irony here.

 

[SimonDoom]

This sounds OK to me, for two reasons.

First, the targets do not appear to be members of groups that are defined by characteristics that typically involve discrimination or mistreatment. "Evil people" is not a protected class of people, nor is there anything inherently wrong with discriminating between people who are evil and those who are good.

Second, it's not clear from the way you describe the story that you are promoting this point of view. One can write about something in fiction without being accused or promoting it. There are countless books about serial killers, and it doesn't mean they promote serial killing.

I think you would only get in trouble if the killing in your stories takes on a pornish quality -- where violence is depicted in a way that will arouse people. There's nothing wrong with violence per se in Literotica stories.

 

[Stimtheone]

Honestly the story is a bit more complicated and gonna keep those spoilers for later. There will not be cultural destruction, but there will certainly be a lot of chaos after a lot of important figures disappear. Still not named.

And no concern over offending people, just concern of abiding by the rules. Someone, somewhere is going to be offended and that's just reality... but I do need to abide by the site rules to post it here and thus want to make sure it is rules legal. Heck, I already cut out a few things because I was certain they broke rules.

So far, sounds like all is good, so time to get to putting it to digital paper.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Looks OK in a broad sense.

The surest way is to PM the woman who actually makes the decisions, Laurel. I’ve done that a few times and have found her quite helpful.

Good luck

 

[BobbyBrandt]

I have written some pretty violent and brutal scenes in my stories here.

Most involve person-to-person violence, but there are scenes in my stories where a political group perpetrates the violence on innocents to further their agenda. It's all fictitious, though based on real life, and it never raised an eyebrow here on Literotica.

 

[Voboy]

You're fine. I've written about interstellar assassins doing all sorts of vile things to each other. The prohibition here is not against violence itself. It's against violence toward a specific group or individual.

Like, a real-life group or individual. And it has to glorify that violence. So, say, setting a story during the Holocaust, and depicting its horrors, would not be a problem here: writing a story that champions and promotes the Holocaust probably would. Ditto about a story that would seem to advocate killing, say, Biden or Trump.

So if you're assassinating people, go for it. Just take care that you don't make the victims sound like thinly-veiled caricatures of real people.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Race, gender, culture or political affiliation is not even being considered or mentioned here. But the question is if "harmful individuals as dictated by a certain party with no concern for their other features and a good degree of fairness and benevolence" counts as a group which one should not glorify violence towards.

You don't have an issue. I've written a series of stories as Unity Mitford that are set in a rather bloody and graphically described civil war and you don't come anywhere near the level of violence I got into.

 

[PennameWombat]

Race, gender, culture or political affiliation is not even being considered or mentioned here. But the question is if "harmful individuals as dictated by a certain party with no concern for their other features and a good degree of fairness and benevolence" counts as a group which one should not glorify violence towards.

TLDR: Are evil people considered a group we should not encourage violence against?

I had a multi-national group of terrorists attack Stonehenge on the day of the Summer Solstice, killing a number of perfectly innocent tourists in cold blood and kidnapping others. (It wasn’t covered in detail, but the story was set in 1986 and the various terrorists were dead-ender remnants from some of the European terror groups of the 1970s.) Various additional violent acts occurred.

Across other stories, there was the attempted human sacrifice, the knife fights, the kidnappings and attempted murders, my alien parasite (who takes over human women’s bodies) who sucks out people’s life forces (this one I have to work carefully, her favorite is to fuck male or female virgins then suck out their life force after.) She doesn’t get the sexual thrill from the latter, but she feels the sex ‘marinates’ them for the proper conditioning for her to feed (she eats food for the human host body, the alien needs to absorb life energies.)