Everytime you hear someone tell their story you get an editorialized view (at the very least by having chosen to listen to them rather than someone else). Thos

Everytime you hear someone tell their story you get an editorialized view (at the very least by having chosen to listen to them rather than someone else). Those videos are clearly optimized toward the desired impression, but I don't think that they used actors to make their points. On the other hand you have problems like https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/12/weak-men-are-superweapons/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/12/weak-men-are-superweap... where you can construct a castle of lies and deception by only speaking selective truths... To summarize my point: stories are ways to tell one of the many facets of the human experience, when told honestly they can be helpful to our understanding of both the common and the uncommon, when told dishonestly they can warp our perception of reality.