I find troubling the mindset in which fictional devices, societies, persons and universes aren't perceived clearly as just narrative tropes meant for making the narrative where they're contained work.
Because that would ruin fiction for everyone. You're meant to suspend your disbelief when perusing fictional works.
Otherwise, you can just scroll through TvTropes instead of ever reading or watching anything. Or you could just read this:
template<typename Hero, typename Sage, typename Villain, typename MacGuffin>
void Story(Hero hero, Sage sage, Villain villain, MacGuffin macGuffin) {
while(true) {
auto what = hero.advance();
if(what == sage) { sage.teach(hero); }
else if(what == villain) { hero.fight(villain); }
else if(what == macGuffin) { roll_credits(); return; }
}
}
Besides, everything's a risk. Driving, crossing the road, eating chicken wings, getting out of bed, being born. Gotta have some tolerance otherwise you'll go insane.