Funny story The girl wrote a novel in the fantasy genre. Well, an invented world, two conventional peoples live in it, worshiping different gods, and have been at enmity since ancient times. I haven't read the novel, but let's say it's good.
Sending it to the publisher.
It is returned to her with notes throughout the text. I'm quoting from memory, of course. The phrase "Their evil gods demand to kill us" is labeled "insulting religion, inciting religious hatred". The sentence "All these scum only dream of killing us all" is marked "hurts the honor and dignity of a person, incites ethnic hatred". Let's go back again - a fictional world, fictional nations, fictional gods, fictional wars. They have nothing to do with our world. The comments, of course, were made by a neural network. And the publishers don't have time to check everything themselves (even if they check, who will take responsibility for them saying "Guys, we've gone crazy? ") Another friend is writing a novel. And suddenly he says sadly: "I probably won't continue." I ask: "What do you have there? A bloody orgy in the hell of Mars? Do minors smoke forbidden foods and indulge in evil things? "No, he says. He has a planet there, to which representatives of all religions will flock in the future (because they don't want to live among atheists). "A! "- I say. "And you mock the religions there? " "No, on the contrary! But the fact is that there are no orthodox Christians on my planet. They didn't fly." I'm at a loss. "And what? ".
"And what if the Orthodox are offended? ".
"For what? ".
"Don't know. Because they are not there. And if you send them to this planet, then the fact is that they are there. "I'm afraid he won't finish it. In general, what am I talking about? Of course, you cannot criticize religions and peoples. promote drugs and debauchery. But - fantasy, if it is not entertainment in the spirit of "how I entered the past, helped Stalin defeat the Nazis and played all the songs of Vysotsky on the guitar", works with models of the future, present and past. Explorer of worlds. confines. depths. motives. Options.