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[Vaalingrade]

You're plainly wrong with this statement. Suppose you have someone who is completely sociopathic and is always/inherently motivated strictly toward their own self interest. They can still make free choices about how they achieve their inherent goal without being free to change what their goal is.

They can't choose the goal then and as such don't actually have free will. They have limited will.

 

[Reynard]

Why? That's completely irrelevant.

That you think that needs to be answered demonstrates that you're not understanding the fundamental words you, yourself have been using. You should think about this a bit harder mate. You can't make a moral decision without moral agency.

Oh. I see. Carry on.

 

[Filthy Lucre]

Or because the writer/director is actually a bad person and expresses their excitement for all the murder in interviews.

Given your earlier definition of evil I'm not sure that whether or not a person is "bad" or not actually matters, if morality is socially constructed and doesn't have any independent ontological status.

 

[Vaalingrade]

That's not the kind of definition he means. Your definition doesn't actually let anyone know whether or not any given act IS evil in particular.

Whatever society tells you to make you act a certain way or harm certain people.

 

[Filthy Lucre]

They can't choose the goal then and as such don't actually have free will. They have limited will.

The "free" in free will has to do with your ability to do otherwise, not how many options you have, (though you do need at least two).

I can already tell you're a layperson as far as the philosophy of free will goes so I don't think this is going to be a worthwhile conversation lol.

 

[Remathilis]

A sociological construct used to both dissuade and to justify conflict.

See also: "race" and "gender"

 

[Vaalingrade]

The "free" in free will has to do with your ability to do otherwise, not how many options you have, (though you do need at least two).

I can already tell you're a layperson as far as the philosophy of free will goes so I don't think this is going to be a worthwhile conversation lol.

Except you just said they 'inherently' have a goal. They have no other choice but to act on that prime directive.

 

[Fifinjir]

That's the problem though.

None of the races mentioned by the OP are "outgrowths of the fundamental wrongness of the universe". They're essentially just different-looking human-types. Human bandits and goblin raiders are far more similar than say, human bandits and zombies/vampires, or human bandits and psychic crystal machines who destroy the world by their mere presence or something.

I am admittedly speaking from my personal ideal rather than from how it usually plays out.

 

[Vaalingrade]

See also: "race" and "gender"

Race was more literal ad copy, but yes.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Or because the writer/director is actually a bad person and expresses their excitement for all the murder in interviews.

Have you got an example?