Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25266931-20161228230634/@comment-26018514-20170106164006

KNN005 wrote: We're not face to face. Over the net how can I prove I care about the characters and don't just paste my life over their?

All I can do is reaffirm that I'm a fan of the show, have favorite characters and care about how the show will end.

.... That literally has nothing to do with it... Short of running through numerous simulations(which would be difficult to account for author bias, not to mention unlikely to accomplish anything), there really isn't much in the way of confirming you are capable(at best they could prove you incapable simply enough if you are)...

As Arkanto's stated before:

Arkantos95 wrote: KNN005 wrote: No, I sympathize with characters all the time. You really don't. What you do is place yourself, with all of your prejudices, experiences, and the relative omnisciencency you've acquired as a member of the work's audience, in the character's situation, with whatever abilities they have. You don't know how to look past you own moral and psychological views and actually understand how another person's mind works.

That isn't just some wild guess... that is exactly what you described in your earliest posts, back when you were first asserting characters had impossible moral positions, that because your mother and father taught you x, character(s) should do y...

Could you have changed or been exaggerating? perhaps, but that exact thought process is not placing yourself in someone's shoes at all