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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fred Delles" data-source="post: 472698" data-attributes="member: 3497">There is no correct answer. So, tell me, if I am wrong in my beliefs, am I "evil"? If there is proof of no elven god and an orcish pantheon and there is only one elven city that would slaughter orcs just to survive, are they "evil"?What if Hitler won World War II? Whould he retroactively become "good"? What about Communisum? If the U.S. and Western Europe became Communist during the Cold War, would capitalism become evil?What if God is really a fraud? What if capitalism actually doesn't work and brings moral decadence? What if the terrorists are right? (I am 99.999999% sure that none of this is true, but it is my opinion out of six billion people).But if you KNEW (cast something like detect thoughts), THEN what would you say? Don't spin me with "it depends". Once you knew that he/she would do something for himself or his country, the opinions would still be varied. He would still not be universally (this alignment). Of course, you are only furthering yourself from your opinion of "keeping the alignment system" by mentioning "it depends".Consider Mr. Gray the fighter, who would slaughter even children of people his race/nation would hate (say, killing even cambions and tieflings because they have demon blood, and are highly prone to be unchangeable "evil"). Is he good or evil? Note that people's opinions of beliefs change from time to time, through centuries of rising and falling empires.SHALLOW!?!?!?!?You really must be a cheese to think that. I'll just say you are surely ducking the question, especially an interesting one that is highly likely to show up in the fields of D&D.Now I agree even less with you.I'll just stand by Joshua Dyal's comments on this one. Motivation. And if two motivations go into conflict, raise Hell and damn the consequences. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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