Fetishization

The two worst things you can subject an idea to is to romanticize it or to fetishize it. Fetish in this definition is "something irrationally revered" (OED), which I will explain furthermore by saying that is it often put into action in order to gain more from it than what it has to offer. It is a projection of the flesh onto the spirit, it is a delusion, a perversion, and it usually leads to obsession. The most common association to fetish that humans face is the fetishism of food and sexuality.

Romanticization is "To make romantic or idealized in character; to make (something) seem better or more appealing than it really is; to describe, portray, or view in a romantic manner." (OED) Things that are romanticized are usually horrible and disturbing evils (and sometimes fetishes) in order to sidle through the human's natural gut-reactions to evil, tweak their moral compass and invade their mind. Common romanticizations that I've witnessed that are the most disturbing are Japanese anime collections called Loli, of small female children willingly open to be sexual with adult men. The romanticization of female children as whimsical, innocent and pure beings makes it all the more easy to create a pedophilic narrative in one's mind that seems harmless and caring instead of perverted and predatorial. Thug life is often romanticized as well, making it seem noble and honourable when it is clearly more like a forced engagement of evil, violence and ultimately rape and murder.