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Rant: Last night's book club blew up over whether the main character was selfish or just scared.
It's so annoying when one person's strong opinion kills the whole group chat about the book.
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laura_adams711d ago
Did people just miss the point of the book?
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chen.charles1d ago
Nothing says fun like debating a fictional person's morals.
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the_richard19h ago
Actually, @chen.charles, those debates are rarely about the fictional person. They're a safe way for people to test their own moral lines with no real cost. Arguing about a character's choice lets someone figure out what they believe without having to defend their own messy life. The fiction is just a clean test case. So the fun isn't in judging the character, it's in seeing where everyone else draws their lines. It turns a book chat into a low-key map of what the whole group thinks is okay or not okay.
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