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<blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 7205903" data-attributes="member: 6787650">You sound like a Vegan talking about meat-eaters. &quot;So, murderous flesh-eating carnivores are Lawful Good?&quot; You're superimposing your own value system on others and judging them solely by how well they conform to it.The difference between a good murderous flesh-eating carnivore and an evil murderous flesh-eating carnivore is apparent to someone who looks at the way they live their lives; but it's not apparent to someone who just lumps all flesh-eating carnivores together as intrinsically evil. By characterizing them simply as &quot;genocidal racists&quot; you show that you've already made up your mind how you're going to view them; but to the elves it's a very complex moral dilemma*. (Just as meat-eating is a very real moral dilemma to some people in real life: where do you stop?)* For example, &quot;genocidal racists&quot; would be unlikely to settle for a one-way portal into an infinitely-large pocket universe, but Lawful Good drow who are concerned for the future of their race would jump at that possibility. It solves the problem without requiring genocide.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FormerlyHemlock, post: 7205903, member: 6787650"] You sound like a Vegan talking about meat-eaters. "So, murderous flesh-eating carnivores are Lawful Good?" You're superimposing your own value system on others and judging them solely by how well they conform to it. The difference between a good murderous flesh-eating carnivore and an evil murderous flesh-eating carnivore is apparent to someone who looks at the way they live their lives; but it's not apparent to someone who just lumps all flesh-eating carnivores together as intrinsically evil. By characterizing them simply as "genocidal racists" you show that you've already made up your mind how you're going to view them; but to the elves it's a very complex moral dilemma*. (Just as meat-eating is a very real moral dilemma to some people in real life: where do you stop?) * For example, "genocidal racists" would be unlikely to settle for a one-way portal into an infinitely-large pocket universe, but Lawful Good drow who are concerned for the future of their race would jump at that possibility. It solves the problem without requiring genocide. [/QUOTE]

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