This book examines what, if anything, makes a depiction of fictional immorality-such as the murder, torture, or sexual assault of a fictional character-an example of immoral fiction, and therefore something that should be morally criticized and possibly prohibited.

• Cover
• Fictional Immorality and Immoral Fiction
• Fictional Immorality and Immoral Fiction
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Chapter 1
  • Introduction
    • Immoral Fiction?
    • Aims
    • A Taste of Things to Come
    • Chapter Overviews
    • Notes
• Chapter 2
  • The Metaphysics of Fictional Immorality
    • Introduction
    • The Conditions for Existence
    • Fictional Existence
    • Can Fiction Be Accidently True?
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
• Chapter 3
  • The Content of Fictional Immorality
    • Are All Cases of Fictional Immorality Immoral?
    • On the Possibility of a Causal Connection
    • Virtual Pedophilia and the Selective Immorality of Fictional Immorality
    • Child Pornography as Child Abuse
    • Non-pornographic Virtual Pedophilia
    • Slurs and the Selective Immorality of Fictional Immorality
    • In Defense of M2
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
• Chapter 4
  • The Meaning of Fictional Immorality
    • The Immorality of Endorsing an Immoral Worldview
    • Ambiguous Content: Endorsing or Not Endorsing a Particular View?
    • Is IWVrevised Morally Justified?
    • Moral Insensitivity
    • Mitigation in the Form of Moral Edification
    • The Aestheticization of Violence and Other Immoral Action
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
• Chapter 5
  • The Harm of Fictional Immorality
    • The Immorality of Harm
    • What Is It to Harm or Be Harmed?
    • The Conditions for Harm
    • Harming Others
    • The Risk of Increased Harm
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
• Chapter 6
  • Is There Evidence of Harm?
    • Historical Concerns
    • Obscenity and Its Association with Harm
    • Media Violence and Evidence of Harm
    • Other Fictional Spaces
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
• Chapter 7
  • Enjoying Fictional Immorality
    • Enjoying Fictional Immorality
    • Examining the Relationship between xi and Fictional-xi
    • Simulating Sadomasochism
    • Differentiating between Forms of Enjoyment
    • Refining Fictional-xi: Distinguishing between Fictional Worlds
    • Singing along to Depictions of Fictional Immorality
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
• Chapter 8
  • Resisting Fictional Immorality
    • Imaginative Resistance: An Unwillingness to Embrace “Immoral” Depictions
    • Ambiguity When Violating Fixed Norms
    • The Risk of Negative Effect (Harm)
    • Violating the Supervenience Relation
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
• Chapter 9
  • Poor Taste and Fictional Immorality
    • Poor Taste and Offense
    • The Nature and Strength of “Ought” in Accusations of Poor Taste
    • Poor Taste as a Suberogatory Action
    • Bad “Bad Taste” and Good “Bad Taste”
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
• Chapter 10
  • Historical Fiction and Fictional Immorality
    • The Fidelity Constraint Revisited
    • The Accidental Truth of Fiction Revisited
    • On the Matter of Accuracy
    • On the Morality of Historical Fiction
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
• Chapter 11
  • A New Kind of Fiction
    • Deepfakes: A New Kind of Fiction
    • Deepfakesp as Nonconsensual Pornography
    • The Intent to Misrepresent in the Absence or Presence of Disclosure
    • Deepfakep’s Potential for Harm
    • Deepfakesp as Indicative of a Lack of Respect
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
• Chapter 12
  • Fantasy and Fictional Immorality
    • Usurping and Self-Gratifying Fantasies
    • Additional Moral Concerns
    • Fantasy’s Autonomous Nature
    • The Morality of Idle Fantasy
    • The Morality of Surrogate Fantasy
    • Fantasy and Matters of Consent, Harm, and Respect
    • Fantasy
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
• Chapter 13
  • “It’s Not Immoral, but It Is in Poor Taste”
    • The Problem of Contradiction
    • Constructive Ecumenical Expressivism
    • The Problem of Moral Error and Conflicting Norms
    • A Potential Problem: Distinguishing between P and O
    • Putting It All Together
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
• Chapter 14
  • Immoral Fiction and Censorship
    • Introduction
    • Taking Stock
    • From Moral Condemnation to Censorship
    • CEE and Censorship
    • Conclusion
    • Notes
• References
• Index
• About the Author