The subjects are men who feel a psychological need to abuse not AI girlfriends who aren't real being abused.

Look.

There are also chatbots and apps of virtual pets.

If girls and young women started making a point of getting a virtual pet for the express point of torturing it and setting it on fire and were laughing about it publicly, people would be right to express some concern over what this behavior might signify. They'd be right to wonder whether these girls and young women were "all there", mentally and emotionally speaking. They'd be right to wonder if their pets or other animals would be safe around them. No one would be making the ridiculous argument that it's just fantasy and not real. All of society would immediately see it for what it is.

Because the pets being virtual doesn't get around the fact that the behavior of the girls and young women is abberant, maladaptive, and may prove to be lethal to real pets and animals as those girls and young women down the line.

But because we live in a deeply misogynistic culture, there will be many, like you, who will die on the hill of that stupid argument.

Most serial killers start off small, used to be by scribbling and drawing unhinged shit in notebooks as a means of acting out dark fantasies, you know.

What are virtual worlds and apps but modern day versions of those notebooks? Though, virtual characters are a better sandbox to practice on and gain skills to use against real people than notebooks.

Why do so many men feel the need to entertain dark fantasies of hurting women who try to love them? What did we do to you?