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To be honest, as Breaking Bad is purely fiction I'm not even sure if you can "learn" that you'll get killed from dealing drugs.

• dragonwriter 13y ago
  People learn from fiction all the time, though BB isn't exactly fiction that is designed for pedagogical value.
  • gweinberg 13y ago
    Lessons you "learn" from fiction tend to be unreliable. Fiction is not only not true, it is often systematically misleading.
    • dragonwriter 13y ago
      > Lessons you "learn" from fiction tend to be unreliable. That's true from lessons learned from fact, too, as they are more often than not drawn from non-representative, skewed samples of facts, which are each individually true in isolation, but nevertheless support faulty lessons. Good lessons -- drawn originally from systematic, careful study of fact -- OTOH, are often illustrated with carefully constructed fiction from which more people learn them from than do directly from the facts.