I think my interaction with texts "as if they were real" extends to issues of ethics. I get frustrated with compromising of ethics in police interrogation scenes on tv shows, but equally I see rhetoric of "greater good" and ends justifying means in, for example, Joss shows, and I think, "Oh my liberal friends who get so uncomfortable when I make similar arguments IRL must be so not pleased." Okay, actually my immediate reaction is to interrogate what political statement Joss is making. But I have the priormentioned thoughts later/as well.