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{{quote|''... I leave it to be settled by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.''
|'''[[Jane Austen]]'''|the final line of ''[[Northanger Abbey]]''}}
Everyone knows the [[Stock Aesops]]. Be happy with what you have, friendship is more important than money, dream of better things. Sometimes these morals contradict each other, but nobody is surprised to see any of them in a story.
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But there are also morals that don't appear in fiction very often. Morals like "[[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished]]," "[[Atlas Shrugged|Don't automatically share, because some people are degenerate freeloaders]]," "Sometimes you should [[Be a Whore to Get Your Man]],"or "Sometimes [[Violence Really Is the Answer]]." For a certain definition of morality, they aren't wrong, but it still seems... jarring, somehow.
Do this and you have a '''Family
Due to [[Values Dissonance]], a moral that is family unfriendly in one culture may be very family friendly in another, especially morals about social mores or civil rights. This list is for morals that were family unfriendly even for the culture that they were written in. A prime target for [[Anvilicious|dropping anvils
'''Note:''' Just because something happens in a story, that doesn't necessarily mean it's a
Compare [[Clueless Aesop]] and some cases of [[Unfortunate Implications]]. See also [[The Complainer Is Always Wrong]].
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'''Note: Understand that not everything needs or has an Aesop. A depiction is not an endorsement.'''
{{noreallife|Real Life is not scripted, and thus does not have Aesops of any sort.}}
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[[Category:An Aesop]]
[[Category:YMMV Trope]]
[[Category:Fairy Tale Tropes]]
[[Category:Truth in Television]]
[[Category:Sturgeon's Tropes]]
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