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Alternatively you could address the substance of the comment instead of making some appeal to authority. Why do Gorbachev, Gandhi or Mandela stand in opposition to the points being made in the article?

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That they are actual people instead of fictional characters.

And there's not room for everyone? If we say something nice about a fictional character then we're in some way devaluing real people? I don't follow.

Is the implication that we cannot learn things from fiction?

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