User blog comment:DarthPlan/Our Version of The Last Great Time War?/@comment-5265497-20141204102539/@comment-4867780-20141211094735

Yeah, empathy is definitely the most important part of fiction, it's what makes imaginary events/people stuff worth reading. Yet writers have to put lots of trouble in their story to keep it alive, so readers have to somehow be selective about it, leading to a paradoxal situation where we're suposed to empathize but without caring ^ ^;