STTNG had it first!

What’s the moral difference between indulging in a sexual fantasy about someone and watching a deepfake of them?

What’s the moral difference between imagination and real life?

At the same time, we are equally certain that sexual fantasies are morally neutral. Indeed, no one (except perhaps some hard-core Catholics) would have blamed Ewing for creating pornographic pictures of QTCinderella in his mind.

I don’t think this is true. Sexually fantasies aren’t morally neutral. If a fucked up stalker fantasizes about raping and killing a celebrity, that’s certainly not “morally neutral”. And we’d certainly blame such a person for creating those fantasies in their mind.

And we certainly do blame people who stand around children’s playgrounds and watch the kids there with more than a parents interest.