>>108317956I recently watched a short doc on a performance art routine called "Rhythm 0" (which also mentioned a similar routine done by Yoko Ono called "Cut Piece" ten years prior). In it, the performer stands next to a table with various items laid on it and tells the audience to do whatever they want to them.
Some of the items are harmless (like a scarf). Others are not (like knives or a gun with one bullet).
When Marina Abramović performed it in 1974, it started off mostly low key (with people doing silly things like laying the scarf on her head), progressed to people doing more fucked up shit like using the knives to cut her, and ended with someone loading the gun, placing it in her hand and posing it so that she was aiming it at herself.
I like to think that if I was in the audience, my next stop would have been jail because I would have loaded the gun and told everyone that the show was over. I doubt that would have been how I acted at the time, but if I saw it being performed today then I hope I'd have the guts to do that.
A chuuba who hypothetically posts here isn't taking a fraction of the risk that Yoko or Marie did, but they are voluntarily walking into a psychologically dangerous situation. The few rules that /vt/ has are almost never enforced. People can and do post all sorts of vile and horrible shit.
I take advantage of my anonymity by posting my genuine horny thoughts (usually feet and BDSM related) because if there's any place that's an acceptable release valve for those thoughts other than a private journal, it's here. But I still have the responsibility to not be a *complete* monster. Just because you can be one according to the rules doesn't mean that you should be one.
So I don't post anything that I think would genuinely hurt these people (unless they're actual fascists doing fascist shit). I might be critical and snobby about their work from time to time, but I don't actually want to do harm to the vast, vast, vast majority of them. They're just people.
Even if they are here by choice, and even if they are astroturfing themselves, I think the most discomfort they deserve to feel is having to read how much I would like to put their bare feet in stocks and drip hot wax between their toes (consensually, of course). I don't think they deserve to be called whores (unless it's affectionate and they're into that) or liars or grifters or [insert slur here] or told to kill themselves or whatever.
Even if whatever you're posting isn't against the rules, you're still responsible for it.
