Anonymous asked:
No.
A lot of entertainment is based on suffering somehow. Including real historical suffering. Restructuring your entertainment to eliminate that would require extreme scrupulosity and severely limit your options, and in the end, I don’t think it would bring that much good into the world. If you’re the sort of person who worries about war re-enactment being unethical, I don’t think you’re on the knife-edge of slipping into cheering for real war.
There are a few things about war reenactment I could probably pick on as problematic – mostly people who are a little too happy to portray a Confederate or Nazi soldier – but I don’t think the activity in general is wrong.
As someone who enjoys roleplaying #problematic characters, I feel like if you’re really into Confederates or whatever it is better to get stuff like that out of your system in a fantasy setting where things are clearly marked as fantasy and everyone is consenting, then try to be as non-Confederate as possible in real life.