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(Most of these are more accurately described as "errors almost everyone makes all the time" than "dangers of thinking you're in a story", but thinking of them that way seems pretty useful for identifying them.)
Edit: After reading this comment, I'll amend that to "Assuming villainy is the usual explanation for apparent bad behaviour."
So what is villainy, if it's not that?
They mean well, rather than being out to deliberately fuck you up.
This is so common as to be an adage: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor)