User blog comment:ShawnCognitionCP/Warnings on Creepypastas: Why I Despise Them/@comment-4713091-20150223201902/@comment-4713091-20150223210434

If you "emotionally destroy" someone, that's no longer entertaining. For me at least, if I'm not having fun anymore, I shouldn't be reading it. If you're "emotionally destroying" a rape victim with a vivid description of rape, it's not very fun for them.

I consider this and things like it when writing stories. My purpose is to entertain first, scare second, and not try to hurt anyone's feelings at all, but that's just me.

Religion in a story? I'm not really religious, but I'm definitely not opposed to the idea. I personally wouldn't give anyone religious roles that weren't objectively true. That's my personal opinion of hate speech: if it doesn't take much imagination for someone to get the wrong idea about what something in your story means, don't do it.

I find stories with the greatest literary value on here as ones that relate to the human condition to be my favorite. Like I said, the most universal, the better. They will be received well by people from all walks of life, and people will be able to connect it to their own lives. Even if the content of the story itself may not be relatable, emotions, situations, and all the symbolic meaning will be.

You'll find that some of my stories aren't the most terrifying. I often write about what scares me the most: being lonely and dying discontent with one's accomplishments. If you take away the monsters, the characters, what ideas are you leaving behind? What is the greater meaning of a work?

Offensive content tarnishes people even complating this question, and eliminates the literary value of a story. People won't think of what else there is  to look at if one of their personal values is violated.