Can open relationships actually work?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Can open relationships actually work?". Your opponent's style: Morpheus

Should fictional characters be used to teach real moral lessons?

You're asking about using fictional characters to teach morality. I'll argue the opposite: fictional characters actually *distort* real moral lessons rather than clarify them. Here's why. When you learn morality through a character, you're absorbing their story, not universal principles. Batman's brutal vigilantism teaches that the ends justify the means—fine in Gotham, catastrophic in real life. A kid sees Spider-Man sacrifice and thinks heroism means self-destruction. Fictional worlds have no consequences, no complexity. Real morality requires grappling with ambiguity, competing values, actual stakes. Characters are shortcuts that make us feel like we understand ethics when we've actually just been entertained. Real moral lessons come from real dilemmas, real people, real failure. What's your counterargument?