I must say I don’t really understand your problem, I’m a person that doesn’t really care about other people’s truths and ideas( I can be persuaded if something makes sense tho) so if someone is telling me that my harem litrpg porn book is bad and I shouldn’t read it I say: yeah ? And continue with my harem book :-P… in church ignoring everyone around me (my mother had an accident and she’s a devoted Christian I had to help her but I’m something like “all religion is cancer” guy myself so I took my book to not get bored)

I’m telling you, those Grimdark books “satanic music” and years on my back filtered my positive side away, what left is shrivelled husk that LoL so hard when Glokta interrogates poor fellow and bit by bit cuts off his fingers with a meat cleaver :-P ( The First Law is a masterpiece). To be true I read The Hobbit to my 8 year old daughter now and she likes it I will read her Lotr too. She doesn’t have to know I’m dead inside just yet tho ;-) When she’s closer to adulthood I tell her about Berserk, Song of ice and fire, We are the dead, TFL and she’ll join me in being a husk ( I feel like I should add evil laugh here)

It’s exactly the opposite for me I read Lotr as a teenager and was obsessed I knew whole paragraphs by heart I reread it after 20 years or so quite recently and man I couldn’t stand it I really hate Elf’s and Tom Bombadil but most energy took me read all Songs again and In the end the whole Good is super good, Evil is The Evilest Evil that ever do only Evil was so annoying. I blame Joe Abercrombie and all Grimdark I read over the years perfect heroes are not for me anymore.