Soapbox Moment

Good stories weave their lessons into the plot so that you can infer them from what happens. Bad stories involve characters simply telling people the moral lesson and hoping they will agree with the character instead of deciding that the character is an idiot.

''Jo smiled sweetly. "Does he treat you any differently than the human students in his class?" Francine thought for a moment. "No, now that you mention it, he doesn’t. The only students he harasses are the stupid ones, regardless of whether they are humans or furs." Jo nodded and said, "You shouldn’t jump to conclusions so quickly about people just because they are humans or furs. People are all different and deserve to be judged on their own merit."'' -source: www.chakatsden.com/chakat//Stories/TheLastStraw-1.htm