Is There a Moral Stand for Fiction?

The story appeared in the new yorker in october 19 94 and was expanded into the nove zomby, which was published by dutton in 19 95. I feel as though over the years there have been so many debates about the moral ramifications of imagining yourself fictionally or really a psychopathic characters who've done harm in the world. In that sense, i think of it as a very moral thing to choose to write things like this. You bear a certain moral responsibility for whatever you are generating and presenting to the world. If you think about fiction as just trying to reflect the world, then there is no moral stand right? Because all we are doing is just representing the