: Re: How to make the reader think that the character's logic is flawed instead of the author's? Following up on my previous question, "How to make the villain's motives understandable if his logic

My answer to this is quite simple: Show proof that they're wrong in-story. Doesn't have to be blatant, doesn't have to be screamed, but if you have a reader who is detail-oriented enough to pick up the flaws in a character's logic, they'll be detail-oriented enough to pick up on the tiny consequences that foreshadow the big one.

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