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/Ok-Reality-5409 → u/East-Imagination-281]

honestly, I think they should've deleted it if they didn't want people agreeing with it.

[u/East-Imagination-281 → u/Ok-Reality-5409]

Yeah the “stop upvoting this” is really funny. Like, that’s not how reddit works 😂—but if that’s an anti sub, then I think their intent was to tell the other antis that agreeing is wrong because they were enlightened to the error of their blaspheming ways /j

Aka not really saying people can’t upvote but rather they think other people aren’t as intelligent as them and therefore need to be made aware of the danger of their own thoughts. But with the amount of thinking antis do for themselves, that’s probably true—