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<blockquote data-quote="kamosa" data-source="post: 1593025" data-attributes="member: 1037">Assasins = evilI think that the assasin class is evil, and probably should be evil.&nbsp; There really isn't a way to view taking money to kill someone as a profession as anything but evil.&nbsp; That is to say, I can't come up with a context where it is not a crime to accept payment for killing another human being that otherwise you wouldn't give two cents about, that I wouldn't consider it evil.&nbsp; There is also a stigma with killing a specific targeted individual instead of the killing that just happens as a result of combat.Take WWI for example.&nbsp; Lots of horrible stuff happened, trench warfare, chemical attacks, 24 hour barrages of heavy artillary, the worst of the worst of what we can do to eachother.&nbsp; What did they hate?&nbsp; The sniper.&nbsp; Why, because the sniper didn't fight you in battle.&nbsp; He targeted and killed a specific person, a concious act of murder, even in the barbaric trenches of WWI.&nbsp; So, I would say being an assasin is kind of the same sort of deal, a targeted kill.&nbsp; We glamorize assasins in movies and TV shows, so that makes it seem like it is less evil.&nbsp; After all, we would never LIKE something that was evil.&nbsp; But think about the stories where assasins are the main characters.&nbsp; Do they start out as good guys that just take money for killing, or do they start out as bad guys that go through a transformation in the movie that turns them into nonkillers?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kamosa, post: 1593025, member: 1037"] [b]Assasins = evil[/b] I think that the assasin class is evil, and probably should be evil. There really isn't a way to view taking money to kill someone as a profession as anything but evil. That is to say, I can't come up with a context where it is not a crime to accept payment for killing another human being that otherwise you wouldn't give two cents about, that I wouldn't consider it evil. There is also a stigma with killing a specific targeted individual instead of the killing that just happens as a result of combat. Take WWI for example. Lots of horrible stuff happened, trench warfare, chemical attacks, 24 hour barrages of heavy artillary, the worst of the worst of what we can do to eachother. What did they hate? The sniper. Why, because the sniper didn't fight you in battle. He targeted and killed a specific person, a concious act of murder, even in the barbaric trenches of WWI. So, I would say being an assasin is kind of the same sort of deal, a targeted kill. We glamorize assasins in movies and TV shows, so that makes it seem like it is less evil. After all, we would never LIKE something that was evil. But think about the stories where assasins are the main characters. Do they start out as good guys that just take money for killing, or do they start out as bad guys that go through a transformation in the movie that turns them into nonkillers? [/QUOTE]

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