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<blockquote data-quote="ConcreteBuddha" data-source="post: 194330" data-attributes="member: 3139">Re: Please...I disagree with this statement. DnD is not an ideal absolute system where something like &quot;Thou shall not kill&quot; is absolutely defined. DnD is a combination of both absolute and relative ideas. &quot;Good&quot; and other descriptor words are not absolutely defined. They have room for wishy-washiness that is not allowed in an absolute system. The use of such words and phrases as &quot;in general&quot; and &quot;implies&quot; are examples of this. This is exactly why it can be debated. The absolutists and relativists both find solace within the boundries and gaps of DnD. The modrons of Mechanus would falter with the alignment rules as stated in the PHB and they are the best example of absolutists I can think of.Let the relativists duke it out with the absolutists, they've been doing it for centuries. Hey, maybe both are correct... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="ConcreteBuddha, post: 194330, member: 3139"] [b]Re: Please...[/b] I disagree with this statement. DnD is not an ideal absolute system where something like "Thou shall not kill" is absolutely defined. DnD is a combination of both absolute and relative ideas. "Good" and other descriptor words are not absolutely defined. They have room for wishy-washiness that is not allowed in an absolute system. The use of such words and phrases as "in general" and "implies" are examples of this. This is exactly why it [B] can [/B] be debated. The absolutists and relativists both find solace within the boundries and gaps of DnD. The modrons of Mechanus would falter with the alignment rules as stated in the PHB and they are the best example of absolutists I can think of. Let the relativists duke it out with the absolutists, they've been doing it for centuries. Hey, maybe both are correct... ;) [/QUOTE]

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