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I just couldn't help it, thinking about these questions while reading 'King Dork', which is very us-vs-Them and counterculture-vs-'Normals', to the point where even though I empathized with the pov character, I felt slightly bad for everyone else (who wasn't so clearly characterized anyway, including the best friend-- unreliable narrator heaven).

I was wondering about the relationship between empathizing with the pov character vs the underdog or whether they can feed into each other (since here we had your classic underdog-pov situation, and I was, in fact, suckered.) Also, whether this all generally relates to whom is better written than whom :>

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EDIT - If you picked 'other (?)', tell me whyyyyyyyy! Heh. I'm like 'omg, I know my answer options weren't full enough, I totally suck, WAH' :))

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No, I don't think it is possible. I mean, humans are biased people, they see everything through a filter of their own experiences and preferences and emotions, absolutely. One of the reasons I dislike people is because they have this nasty tendency to see things in an extremely biased way, and then proclaim that everyone who doesn't share their conclusions is delusional/stupid/fucked up/projecting, when actually they're just doing exactly the same thing, but with DIFFERENT experiences, preferences and emotions. Which is a rant for another day maybe but seriously that's probably the most annoying thing people do, to me.

I wouldn't mind being a robot or a god!

And I don't disagree that it's possible to have a bias and self-awareness - if I step back and check myself I can often counteract mine, although it's hard to tell when I'm counteracting it so much that I end up going over to the other side to compensate for having been stuck on one side to begin with!