User blog comment:EvilMegaCookie/Maya/@comment-5819717-20150316181224/@comment-4867780-20150319003228

I think "anti-climatic" sums it up the best. After all, fiction is created to entertain the readers, so the setting has to be "empathizable" somehow, meaning people have to suffer and struggle to keep up the dynamics we are familiar with (those rythming our real world).

From an in-universe perspective it is horribly selfish of us, which is all the more disturbing when you come to consider the real-life concept of "God". What if real-life suffering only exists so that its creator may be entertained, exactly like writers do with their own fictional worlds ?

Their respective roles and very awkward justification for suffering are quite similar, aren't they ?

Can we honestly blame a theoretical real-life creator for the unfairness and suffering we all have to go through our entire life, and yet carry on the exact same modus operandi for nothing more than our personal satisfaction ?

Yes, the decisive difference is that fictional characters don't exist, but compared to "God" we probably look like ink on paper rather than real persons, as well.