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*** [[Take a Third Option|Why can't it be all three?]]
** You're right, people might not care about the lesson. That's why an author creates a story with characters you identify with, so you ''do'' care about them and the lessons they learn. Aesops can be cheapened by bad writing, but with ''good'' writing they can add depth and realism to one.
** Because sometimes an aesop is not widely considered, and the author wishes more people would at least consider their point of few. For example, [[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Hiromu Arakawa]] despairs that adults just dismiss suffering in the world as 'whatcha gonna do', and that children should value their outrage when they witness injustice. Thus she writes this aesop into the story. Personally, I find it a massive relief sometimes when I see an author buck an aesop trend and gets on my own wavelength on something I believe in when so many others don't.
** I'm more annoyed when an author forces an Aesop into their work, just for the sake of it being there. I may not be a published writer, but writing my own stories in general I can tell you it's quiet impossible to write a story without something of your view being imported into it. Sure, it'll be harder to see and it'll really get the readers to think of what they believe the message of the story is (which I find more satisfying than being told what I'm supposed to think of the story) but there is no need to shove a meaningless Aesop into the story when you don't have enough purpose to be writing about it without contradicting yourself or making it sound ridiculous.
** I never use aesops, but people seem determined to find them in my writing anyway (and usually come out with something that's the opposite of my particular real life stance).
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