• BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      The characters the story is written about do. The people living in it that the main character doesn’t even interact with don’t. Nobody cares about salaryman #97543784 who, at the beginning and end of the story is still pushing pencils but maybe reads about an office explosion in the news.

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      This is true of any work of fiction. People in works of fiction - at least works of sci-fi or fantasy adventure - are typically more risk taking because that’s interesting to a reader/audience and the author knows this.