It sounds like you're saying there shouldn't be stories with villains in the leading role? We shouldn't ever empathize with or put ourselves in the shoes of fla

It sounds like you're saying there shouldn't be stories with villains in the leading role? We shouldn't ever empathize with or put ourselves in the shoes of flawed characters? There's a school of thought that says that portraying moral complexity is a more mature, realistic approach to storytelling than simplistic black-and-white narratives where the villains are pure evil and the heroes are pure good. Part of the reason for doing that is so that we, the audience, realize that although we might think of ourselves as good, we are capable of doing bad things. We learn that moral purity and moral certainty is a form of self-deception. Think about the moral certainty of war, for example.