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by jrockway 5404 days ago
We had all better stop talking, just in case someone overreacts to something we say. Fiction writers, especially, take note.
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Or maybe we should think twice about saying things like "your kids are being killed at school". I am open to suggestions but I have never heard about a book causing mayhem in a couple of minutes.
The reason why is that people don't expect to trust books. Open a random book at the bookstore, and it's probably a story that the author made up. Twitter is the same way, but people don't realize this yet.

I don't see why authors should be held responsible for their readers' stupidity, though.