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I don't know how to get anyone to separate issues anymore.

Like, whether or not you think something is appropriate in fiction is a separate issue from nearly everything. Go ahead and argue to your heart's content about all of that; it's the only way we figure out social progress anyway. But:

• threats, suicide baiting, violent imagery, etc. are just not okay to send to people??? there aren't 'good reasons'
• regardless of what you're trying to censor or why, censorship always disproportionately targets vulnerable populations and people
• there is no way to make a single, simple rule, and no way to enforce case-by-case decision making; censorship will always overreach
• even if you did your censorship successfully, censorship actually worsens pretty much all issues
• diverting resources from actually fixing problems to censoring things instead is fucky as shit?
• 'what will make me/people feel more comfortable?' is a separate question from 'what will prevent, stop, or lessen the impacts of abuse/violence?' and both of those are very different questions from 'what makes me look moral(ly superior)?'

And all of these are different things that need to be talked about in different ways in different contexts. And none of that can happen when people are obsessed with scrubbing xyz out of all fiction except for in the underspecified ways that it's allowed.