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<blockquote data-quote="Flamestrike" data-source="post: 8006125" data-attributes="member: 6788736">See I think this is where you and I differ.Evil people arent people who wilfully engage in murder, torture, genocide, slavery and rape 'for fun' (although those people certainly qualify as evil, they would be exceptionally rare and in most cases highly poor characterisations of actual people).Evil people are people who wilfully engage in murder, torture, genocide, slavery and rape full stop, no matter the justification or rationalisation of that evil.Here you and I agree. Oaths are open to interpretation. I (personally) have played an Evil Paladin who interpreted the 'greater evil' he was sworn to fight as being the discord of human society leaving it weak and prone to corrupt influences (embracing fascism, fundamentalism and ethno-nationalism as the solution), and specifically the machinations and church of the god Torm (who is in fact LG) as the greatest 'evil.'And yet I can literally point you to canon examples of dragons and demons and other outsiders, fiends and angels that have changed alignment.They do have a choice; as hard as that choice may be, and as rare as it is for them to exercise that choice, they have one.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Flamestrike, post: 8006125, member: 6788736"] See I think this is where you and I differ. Evil people arent people who wilfully engage in murder, torture, genocide, slavery and rape 'for fun' (although those people certainly qualify as evil, they would be exceptionally rare and in most cases highly poor characterisations of [I]actual[/I] people). Evil people are people who wilfully engage in murder, torture, genocide, slavery and rape [B]full stop, no matter the justification or rationalisation of that evil.[/B] Here you and I agree. Oaths are open to interpretation. I (personally) have played an Evil Paladin who interpreted the 'greater evil' he was sworn to fight as being the discord of human society leaving it weak and prone to corrupt influences (embracing fascism, fundamentalism and ethno-nationalism as the solution), and specifically the machinations and church of the god Torm (who is in fact LG) as the greatest 'evil.' And yet I can literally point you to canon examples of dragons and demons and other outsiders, fiends and angels that have changed alignment. They do have a choice; as hard as that choice may be, and as rare as it is for them to exercise that choice, they have one. [/QUOTE]

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