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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7921481" data-attributes="member: 4937">If you are doing this, how are you going to say that racism is wrong? What would be the basis of condemning the slaughter of anything that wasn't part of your tribe, if there wasn't some standard of universal morality which judged not only how you treated other people within your culture, but how people who didn't share a culture ought to act and treat each other?&nbsp;&nbsp; If each person or culture is allowed to define what is good and what is evil, then how are you going to say that it's wrong for them to be racist?Wait. What? What D&amp;D world are you describing where conflict only occurs between good and evil, and not for example between say two lawful good persons (or parties) who judge that they have conflicting duties and no way to compromise? Are you saying that, for example, the scene in 'Les Miserables' where Jean Val Jean judges that his duty to save a child, after he gave his word to the mother that he would save the child, outweighs his duty to the law to submit himself to its judgment for the violation of his parole, and by contrast the police men Javier believes his duty is to bring a parole violator to judgement can't actually happen in a setting with absolute alignments? If so, why do you think that?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7921481, member: 4937"] If you are doing this, how are you going to say that racism is wrong? What would be the basis of condemning the slaughter of anything that wasn't part of your tribe, if there wasn't some standard of universal morality which judged not only how you treated other people within your culture, but how people who didn't share a culture ought to act and treat each other? If each person or culture is allowed to define what is good and what is evil, then how are you going to say that it's wrong for them to be racist? Wait. What? What D&D world are you describing where conflict only occurs between good and evil, and not for example between say two lawful good persons (or parties) who judge that they have conflicting duties and no way to compromise? Are you saying that, for example, the scene in 'Les Miserables' where Jean Val Jean judges that his duty to save a child, after he gave his word to the mother that he would save the child, outweighs his duty to the law to submit himself to its judgment for the violation of his parole, and by contrast the police men Javier believes his duty is to bring a parole violator to judgement can't actually happen in a setting with absolute alignments? If so, why do you think that? [/QUOTE]

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