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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vegepygmy" data-source="post: 5481223" data-attributes="member: 40109">Of course, that's not what "duty" means, so Celebrim's point is well taken. duty[doo-tee, dyoo-]-noun, plural -ties.1. something that one is expected to do or required to do by moral or legal obligation.2. the binding or obligatory force of something that is morally or legally right; moral or legal obligation.3. an action or task required by a person's position or occupation; function: the duties of a clergyman.4. the respectful and obedient conduct due a parent, superior, elder, etc.5. an act or expression of respect.6. a task or chore that a person is expected to perform: It's your duty to do the dishes. It is no more a demon's "duty" to answer Calling spells than it is my "duty" to obey the law of gravity. And it should be quite obvious from the definition I have provided that a demon would whole-heartedly reject the notion that it owes any duty to anyone or anything (in fact, would conclude that the entire concept of "duty" is utter gibberish), exactly as Celebrim pointed out. I'm not going to bother responding to the rest of your post, except to say it is obvious to me that most of your miscomprehensions stem from an inability to correctly categorize your own ethics and morals. You make the extremely common mistake of attempting to superimpose your own values on the D&D alignment scheme, rather than simply accepting that you are (like myself) not "D&D Good," but more accurately "D&D Neutral." This is not to say that I am not a good person. Like any Neutral D&D character would, I simply do not believe that the ideals espoused by D&D Good are actually the ones that result in the best possible world. Rather, I believe that acting in one's own self-interest and commitments to others through personal relationships are "gooder" than altruism (as, it seems, do you). Thus, we are not "D&D Good," but more properly "D&D Neutral."</blockquote>

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