"One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives."

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Questioning our own motives, and our own process, is critical to a skeptical and scientific outlook. We must realize that the default mode of human psychology is to grab onto comforting beliefs for purely emotional reasons, and then justify those beliefs to ourselves with post-hoc rationalizations.

— Steven Novella