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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 4230247" data-attributes="member: 42582">I'm with Korgoth here. Rebels with a cause who are prepared to sacrifice civilian lives and so on - that is, whose personal code and adherence to humanitarian principles is weak - are &quot;sorta good&quot;. Rebels who adhere strictly to a code of non-violence to civilians, and who avoid (or at least regret) the deceit they practice are good. Lawful good. (Michael Walzer has an interesting discussion of the &quot;revolutionary code&quot; in Just and Unjust Wars. I'm not sure I agree with all of it, but I think it heads roughly in the right direction.)I don't want to violate forum rules - so I'll just note that (given the actual historical examples of Fascist and National Socialist governments) this would be a controversial premise on which to build any system of moral analysis.I have a hard time seeing the actual anarchists of human history - Kropotkin, William Godwin, Benjamin Tucker and the like, with all their varying (perhaps flawed) theories of human freedom and human liberation - as being in the same moral category as Demogorgon.What makes you say that?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 4230247, member: 42582"] I'm with Korgoth here. Rebels with a cause who are prepared to sacrifice civilian lives and so on - that is, whose personal code and adherence to humanitarian principles is weak - are "sorta good". Rebels who adhere strictly to a code of non-violence to civilians, and who avoid (or at least regret) the deceit they practice are good. Lawful good. (Michael Walzer has an interesting discussion of the "revolutionary code" in [i]Just and Unjust Wars[/i]. I'm not sure I agree with all of it, but I think it heads roughly in the right direction.) I don't want to violate forum rules - so I'll just note that (given the actual historical examples of Fascist and National Socialist governments) this would be a controversial premise on which to build any system of moral analysis. I have a hard time seeing the actual anarchists of human history - Kropotkin, William Godwin, Benjamin Tucker and the like, with all their varying (perhaps flawed) theories of human freedom and human liberation - as being in the same moral category as Demogorgon. What makes you say that? [/QUOTE]

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