I do not support the notion that fiction and freedom needs to be restricted on the basis some rare individuals might be slightly influenced to commit crime. Fiction involving serial killers might inspire some to become such, fiction about drug dealing and gang life may inspire such, violent video games and movies may motivate a small fraction to act violently or commit crime.
For starters you have to abandon the foundation of the abrahamic faiths, free will, to even entertain such notions. If an individual has free will or moral agency you can never say a work of fiction CAUSED x crime.
And again even if it caused x crime, an innocent activity that harms no one shouldn't be censored because of the actions of another, an individual could go with Jewish religious attire out into the streets, and this could provoke a neo Nazi to commit a crime against them. Should wearing Jewish religious attires be banned because it may cause a small fraction to become violent or criminal in some rare cases? Of course not.
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