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Message: <blockquote data-quote="niklinna" data-source="post: 9287772" data-attributes="member: 71235">Which world is this? A conveniently fabricated imaginary world where it can be declared and rendered fictional fact (how's that for a noun phrase?) that all members of race X are inherently and irredeemably evil and therefore to be heroically killed on sight, it would seem.History?Well no, of course not, in this imaginary created world all Orcs are conveniently by definition evil, to be heroically killed by our heroic heroes.That would be a great theme to examine in a roleplaying game. But I thought were just heroically killing all the definitionally evil people in order to be heroic.Reality?It's a human urge to want to simplify and have pat answers to thorny problems(+ heroism!). Actual reality has presented us with this dilemma for quite some time, and in many ways. The dilemma itself has been a real problem, but so have "solutions" based on simplifying to "all people of nation/skin color/you-name-it are to be killed on sight". This even applies to extirpation of supposedly/arguably non-moral species such as, to name just a few examples, wolves, bears, and buffalo (although in the latter case there were some serious ulterior motives, based in part on the same simplification applied to another group of beings).</blockquote>