Narrative Empathy and the Limits of Glorification Sympathy for rebel figures often hinges on narrative empathy: provided with a backstory of grievance, audiences are inclined to forgive transgression. Yet empathy has limits. Celebrating Miss Alli Setsl without interrogation risks normalizing violence and obscuring alternative pathways of change. Conversely, denouncing her without addressing structural causes can amount to moralizing that ignores why rebellion emerges. The ethical stance here is not straightforward condemnation or praise but critical contextualization: recognize grievances, scrutinize means, and accept that the cultural work of myth may obscure lived reality.