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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9507643" data-attributes="member: 42582">But you can't "get a glimpse of how that would feel", except metaphorically. Because you're not peering through a window. You're imagining.Some people's imagination is accurate. Some is not. There are some things where, for most people, imagination is probably not all that reliable.Here's some examples, pertinent to adventure-oriented RPGing: how would I react if I had the chance to rush into a burning house and save someone? or if I had the chance to throw myself in front of a gunman to protect a loved one? By chance, stories of this sort have features on our national news recently (well, I'm in Australia so no gunmen, but there was a kindergarten teacher who died saving kids from a truck crashing into the kindergarten). Two people did heroic things. But obviously there are times when people don't do heroic things. Which sort of person am I? What would the experience and the choice be like?I can imagine, but I can't "glimpse" it just by introspecting and drawing on my knowledge of Spider-Man comics.</blockquote>