: Fault in writers logic and how avoid? So yeah I have seen a situation where what the writer has put makes sense, but after thinking it through there are clear faults in the logic they used.

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So yeah I have seen a situation where what the writer has put makes sense, but after thinking it through there are clear faults in the logic they used.

Here's my example

A small team is advancing to and organisation. The leader brings in an
experienced person to act as their second in command and help build up
the organisation.

The second in command gets upset when the leader does not follow the
proper procedures when making a decision.

Now the second in command teaches the leader a lesson to get him to
start doing the procedures properly.

This is all well and good except when the second in command goes to
the extreme to teach him a lesson by abusing their authority and
humiliating the leader in front of the team. The second in command
doesn't even try and talk it out with the leader at all and just goes
right to the extreme option.

Now it ends with the leader blaming themselves after what happens and
learning the lesson, but here is the kicker the readers realise the
procedures the second in command is upset for the leader not following
were never established. The reason the leader never followed them is
not their fault, but cause they were never there to begin with and
were something the second in command expected the leader to follow,
but never told the leader or the team that they were adding these
procedures.

See what I mean at first the writer is giving message of a tough lesson learned and the second in command is doing it for the greater good. However once a reader thinks about it more carefully they realise faults in the logic used. This results in them getting annyoned cause the writer has made the leader out to be wrong and leaves it at that making the second in command the good guy. Yet while the story makes it out to be so the readers don't think so now that they noticed the faults.

This has resulted in readers calling it bad writing cause the reaction the author wants and is going for gets contradicted by what actually happens once thought through. I am wondering if anyone has any tips to avoid such a situation or how to fix it when it happens.

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