It is just as possible (and actually much more likely, in my experience) for fictional narratives to be used as intuition pumps, to appeal to cognitive biases a

It is just as possible (and actually much more likely, in my experience) for fictional narratives to be used as intuition pumps, to appeal to cognitive biases and distract from the difficulties of the real-world situation and the inconsistencies, incompleteness or arbitrariness of the author's position.