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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hecateus" data-source="post: 1236301" data-attributes="member: 15056">I am going to slightly disagree.  Good is defined as that which is beneficial.  If the sacrifice was not beneficial (or reasonably expected benefit), then it was not good, ie wasted effort.  "Fran sacrifces his youth toiling away for the Crafts Guild to afford better future for himself."==good. "Fran Sacrifices his youth watching HoloVids of his favorite Idol whome he worships."==bad.When other people enter into the notion of sacrifice, win-win resolutions can only be considered 'good' uses of a sacrifice.  The party which sacrifices must derive, or expect, some significant benefit to compensate for the sacrifice. "Roger sacrifices his life by fighting off orcs so that his children [whome he values greatly] can escape the orcs attacking his villiage."Evil enters the the picture of Sacrifice when lose-win, win-lose, or lose-lose resolutions crop up.  Win-Lose: In ancient Aztec society, in order to gain the favor of the Gods to provide rain [benefit], sacrifices were 'needed'.  In their case, unwilling peoples from other villages were captured against their will and exectued at the temples, their blood used to 'feed' the gods.  Lose-Win:  Succombing to weird philosophical sickness, The City of Sacrifce [lfor ack of a better name] required persons of skill to give up the results of their wealth to strangers whom they could not be expected to know or care about...classic extreme socialism.Lose-Lose:  Life being meaningless, Templar SuperSoldiers of the Future, run around the radioactive Wastes searching for survivors of WW4 and sacrifice them...in order to save them from a future of misery etc.</blockquote>

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