I've always found it weird how people could like vampires. There are many shows and books about them: Twilight, Vampire Diaries, True blood, and the list goes on. The reason I found it weird was because they're all cold serial killers. In fact, more worse than your usual killer because they actually, to a certain extent eat their victims. While that may not be as bad compared to eating someone fully, drinking someone's blood is highly unhygienic, and just plain disgusting. However, we have kids reading about these blood suckers.
Like come on, I didn't get famous when a mosquito seemed to fall in love with me.
Beside that, it did get me thinking, we do seem to have this morbid infatuation with monsters in a sense. Take for instance, pirates. They rape, they kill, and they don't really look pretty when they do it. But we have cartoons about them, stories about and so and so forth. It's not just pirates that we do that to. We also do it with thieves, murders, werewolves, serial killers, and tyrants. We just seem to romanticize them, and if we don't romanticize them, we seem to revel in their terrible deeds.
While it may seem innocent to a certain extent to make horrible people cuddly in children shows. Is it right? Is it right that we make these obscenely horrible characters seems nicer then they are? If we did that to Hitler most people would be barfing up dinner and yelling. But only when extreme is standing in peoples' face do they seem to actually start noticing. Instead we have stories about unknown monsters who get glorified and shown in a nice light. It seems terrible and wrong that we do this when there are so many better men and women to aspire to be.
It seems if we ever should lose sight of what evil is because it seems normal we are in much danger as not knowing what good is. By never questioning that our so called heroes are very much the opposite and never seeming to realize that by glorifying these nefarious characters, we run the risk of creating ourselves in their image.
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