romanticization of violence

It makes me wonder why we normalize fantasizing about characters who are killers or violent. People often say, "It's just fiction, and there's nothing wrong with liking it", people argue that fiction with murder doesn’t affect people or doesn't influence them into committing murder, which is just wrong—a lot of real serial killers were inspired by movies to commit their crimes, plus there is research that proves violent media can have an effect in people. Also, many people are infatuated with real serial killers, even falling in love with them, like with Jeffrey Dahmer or Ted Bundy.

On another note, I hate the romanticization of violence. I love horror movies where the evil characters meet bad ends and root for the main characters to escape. I even like characters like Junko Enoshima from Danganronpa but she dies in the end, which I appreciate. However, I really don’t like it when villains get happy endings. Most BL with plots feature male leads who are emotionless, violent characters who kill for no reason or for fun. This is why I’m not reading Rainbow City—the author's other works feature violent male leads, and the torture scenes in Swapping made me feel disgusted and uncomfortable with the male lead, since then I have avoided her works like the plague. And even then I still read some because like I said 99% of BLs that have plots the MLs are evil which is just getting exhausting.

By the way, I'm not trying to make you feel guilty for liking it. When I said I hate the romanticization of violence, I meant when authors do it—not you for enjoying it. It just feels overdone in BL. I’d love to read something more like Pygmalion or Stranger in the Mirror, where characters experience emotions toward other people beside each other or go on adventures together without hurting others. That’s it. But I’m still open to a civil discussion about why violence is okay in fiction and would like you to debunk my arguments.