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Because, for the most part, the distinction between \\\"the writer dun screwed up\\\", \\\"the writer simply didn\\\'t care\\\", and \\\"the writer cared, but realized it would be better to simply ignore it in order to tell a better story\\\" is subjective (or at least impossible to determine without being involved in the writing process of the work in question yourself)... but the \\\'\\\'ultimate\\\'\\\' point of all three of those subjective distinctions is that most writers care more about telling a good story than about factual accuracy.
The \\\'you fail X forever\\\' names were accusatory and had the implicit assumption that an author who skimps on the factual accuracy is doing something wrong. There\\\'s not really any basis for that as a general assumption -- if you\\\'re reading a DanBrown novel for its factual accuracy, well, really, that says more about you than about DanBrown, doesn\\\'t it?
Hence, \\\'artistic license\\\', which simply says that the author ignored the facts, without passing judgment on whether it was deliberate or not, or on whether it was a good or a bad thing for them to ignore the facts.
The \\\'you fail X forever\\\' names were accusatory and had the implicit assumption that an author who skimps on the factual accuracy is doing something wrong. There\\\'s not really any basis for that as a general assumption -- if you\\\'re reading a DanBrown novel for its factual accuracy, well, really, that says more about you than about DanBrown, doesn\\\'t it?
Hence, \\\'artistic license\\\', which simply says that the author ignored the facts, without passing judgment on whether it was deliberate or not, or on whether it was a good or a bad thing for them to ignore the facts.
