Sometimes threads is really thought provoking.
Saw a thread where they were saying it's good or fine to enjoy red flag/toxic behavior in books because it's fiction and we know it's not real.
So many people were like, "yeah! We're adults and we know it isn't real."
"fiction is a safe place to explore dark ideas."
And I thought about it a while and I think the flaw is that, yes, it is fiction, and yes, it's a fine place to explore some ideas, but ideas are real things. Your actual person, your soul, is interacting with these ideas and at some point you have to decide if they are good or bad and act accordingly.
If you know something is unhealthy and bad, it is probably unwise to routinely associate positive emotions with it. Because what we take in, shapes how we see the world. So yes, you know it's a fake story, but eventually the ideas will work their way in. Because you are teaching yourself it's good. It's enjoyable.
And I think if you are legitimately enjoying it, there might already be a problem.
Because the ideas are real. You are really interacting with them. I don't think the line is so easily drawn.