I’m not mad about Ben Smith; I’m mad at all of this – Poynter

"What about all these people who die in the background of these stories because of this guy's fatal flaw?" Matthew Salesses, a novelist and author of "Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping," asked in The Maris Review. "For them, it's not their fatal flaw that's causing all these problems, it's just kind of living in a world where some people's fatal flaws have vast and deep consequences and other people's fatal flaws are that they live in the world."

This is a question of focus, and who we writers and readers have decided are worthy subjects of our attention and money.