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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 2380077" data-attributes="member: 2067">Yeah, wanting to torture him is dehumanizing him, and treating your enemies as people is kind of the hallmark of good, while treating your enemies as less than human is kind of the hallmark of evil.Good recognizes the value in every life, even that of the wicked beings, though they absolutely fight against the wickedness wherever it arises. Evil thinks that the other side exists only to be destroyed, that any action they take is justified becuase the other side has no essential worth. To reduce even a villain to the point where he has no worth as a living being is 100% Bad Guy material. He may have killed thousands, corrupted millions, and destroyed the hopes and dreams of hundreds, but he is a living, thinking, breathing being, and thus using torture on him would be bad. That's what seperates the Good from the just Neutral or Evil...they go that extra mile, compromise their own base desires, fight what they feel in their own hearts, to improve the quality of life even for the most vile and dispicable of creatures. Because the bad people are still people and there's some things that no person should have to endure, even if said person does exactly that to others. Not that he can't be faught and killed, just that  doing so without denying this bad person his inherent value as a *person* would be good. Torture eradicates your value as a person, and turns you into a tool for information or vengeance, both of which reduce you to a tool for someone else's selfish needs, compromising your own humanity. The person who tortures, for information or for vengeance, is aligned with Evil, even if that information or vengeance serves the greater good in the end.At least, that's how it would work IMC.</blockquote>

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