Fiction vs Reality Debate
The cluster focuses on debates distinguishing fiction from reality and non-fiction, criticizing the use of fictional stories or novels as evidence or arguments for real-world claims or actions.
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Perhaps there's a difference between fiction and non-fiction
Please don't conflate fiction with reality.
You seem to be treating fiction as if it was representative of the real world.
A good perspective! People find fiction novels to be enriching and filled with learning despite the fact they are just entertaining lies.
Fiction isn't exactly a good argument
Better to put anything as nonfiction as fiction at this rate!
It says "a story"... stories are usually fiction.
Fiction has to make sense; reality is under no such obligation.
Not sure why it's downvoted. Fiction isn't as far from reality.
We shouldn't be using fiction to inform anything about our actions in real life.