Recent content by BenK

Totes. Great job, WotC.

This is exactly what I've been looking for. Perfect.

I think the devils pose a bigger problem for Rawls than the demons. It sounds like Rawls' view is a sort of social contract theory? The demons openly reject the contract, and all the parties to the contract can agree that they should be 'contained.' But the devils don't openly reject the...

Well, there's a coincidence. I'm enrolled to study at an Australian university law school next year. 'Good and Evil' don't make sense as equal but conflicting forces, agreed - they're not simply opposed, they're fundamentally asymetrical. My take Table of Alignments-wise is that Good (tm) means...

Pemerton - your prose is brilliant! Such a knack for clarity. You teach at a university somewhere? I think you see that this discussion is pointless, but you seem to be enjoying yourself. So, Rawls in Sigil. Rawls sits down a bunch of Angels and Devils and so forth and explains to them that to...

pemerton - I did a philosophy major as an undergraduate, but of course that leaves me with nothing more than a smattering. I've just skimmed this epic thread, but I've found your last few posts intriguing - has Rawls somehow overcome this "Is / Ought" divide? (Sorry if you've already addressed...