but you can't compare the game with reality, in reality every case is unique and has its own peculiarities, and the game is just an image anyway.
"Going through trauma doesn't make you a better person" is an extremely stupid and unfairly insulting statement, but that's my personal opinion.
I don't think it's completely unfair to compare the game to reality, because writers /do/ grab from something, but I do think it's unfair to think they're doing a 1:1 comparison, or think that fiction is so literal that if you like a morally questionable character (say, someone like Jaime Lannister) you, and perhaps their writers if they're eventually written in a better light, condone all of their actions as if they had happened IRL.
CW: More talk about the lived experience of going through trauma, and the repercussions it has As for your last sentence, I'm a bit confused, maybe I didn't explain the sentiment behind that phrase well enough?
What this is tackling is the idea some people can have (especially if religious) that having gone through trauma has made you a stronger and better person, like it was meant to happen. And, from what I've seen (and I agree with them) a lot of survivors are staunchly against this sentiment, saying that their trauma only made their life worse and it wasn't some sort of necessary rite of passage that in any way proved them stronger or better. Hence, "trauma doesn't make you a better person".
Maybe this reddit thread talking about the same topic helps get it across? (Another serious stronger CW than the previous one for this link, folks, but I think OP's first post is more than enough to understand)
https://www.reddit.com/r/CPTSD/comments/14ghe35/your_trauma_made_you_a_better_person_and_taught/
