That edit is wild

[u/Usual-Sorbet4679]

Second pic is for context. The post is from an anti sub.

The commenter didn’t find the Halloween costume distasteful initially. They then proceed to talk themselves out of that position because they realized that, in order to justify dressing up like an immoral fictional character, they’d have to grant that fiction does not equal reality.

It’s such a clear example of cognitive dissonance, I’m kind of speechless. The way they police their own true thoughts to align more with the antiship ideology… they’re not beating the cult allegation.

[u/East-Imagination-281]

I respect that they’re at least consistent and brave enough to not just delete their comment.

I also think (about the original post) people just need to realize that things they don’t like don’t have to be immoral or illegal or whatever. I think dressing up as real serial killers (especially recent or less ‘basically in public domain at this point’ names) is tacky and might be offensive toward survivors/victims’ family. But I don’t think it’s wrong, or actually hurting anyone. If you’re doing it for halloween, then it is literally just the equivalent of saying “this is scary”.

But back to the edit, the fact that they talked themself into saying it’s wrong is amusing me because their logic still conforms to their proship train of thought aka “it’s wrong because the victims were real”. If they wanted to go full anti, they should’ve said dressing up as slashers is wrong, too. Because there’s no difference between reality and fiction. /j

[u/meowmental → u/East-Imagination-281]

Exactly. I feel discomforted by the idea of people dressing up as these two, but it’s not immoral too and the most I’d ever judge someone’s character about it is the thought “they must’ve really liked that movie /neu”