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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 9260222" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>I do this by the expediency of "It's trying to kill you." Occasionally this leads to "Are we the baddies here?", which is fine, but that just gives opportunity for RP. </p><p></p><p>I question the need for a quick and easy way to communicate to the players, "These are the bad guys. It's okay to kill them." Self-defense is a valid reason, whether or not they are the bad guys - and indeed is probably the only valid reason. </p><p></p><p>My species situation is considerably more complicated than that, to the extent that you can and characters do argue over this question in world. OK, so the Free Peoples are people, but should Fey count or are they something else entirely? And I mean, its one thing to say an Sidhe is a person, but a sprite or atomie those are hardly better or smarter than rats and it's OK to kill rats right? What about Giants? What about Goblins, are they really still people? And sure, kobolds are definitely not people, but does that mean it's moral to kill them without any more cause than that? What if they are just minding their own business? And animals, is it really OK to just kill them for fun? So why is it alright to kill anything just for fun?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 9260222, member: 4937"] I do this by the expediency of "It's trying to kill you." Occasionally this leads to "Are we the baddies here?", which is fine, but that just gives opportunity for RP. I question the need for a quick and easy way to communicate to the players, "These are the bad guys. It's okay to kill them." Self-defense is a valid reason, whether or not they are the bad guys - and indeed is probably the only valid reason. My species situation is considerably more complicated than that, to the extent that you can and characters do argue over this question in world. OK, so the Free Peoples are people, but should Fey count or are they something else entirely? And I mean, its one thing to say an Sidhe is a person, but a sprite or atomie those are hardly better or smarter than rats and it's OK to kill rats right? What about Giants? What about Goblins, are they really still people? And sure, kobolds are definitely not people, but does that mean it's moral to kill them without any more cause than that? What if they are just minding their own business? And animals, is it really OK to just kill them for fun? So why is it alright to kill anything just for fun? [/QUOTE]
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