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<blockquote data-quote="Flamestrike" data-source="post: 7974873" data-attributes="member: 6788736">[With a modern definition and context. The authors of the 5E PHB didnt expect us to look at what is 'good or evil' through the lens of Hitler, or a slave owning murdering Roman rapist, or an Orc mass murderer or a Drow demon worshipping psychopath when determining what is (or is not) morally good or evil.Good means morally good. Altruism, mercy, respect for the lives of others and self sacrifice. Evil means morally evil; harming, oppressing or killing others.Slavery rape and murder is evil. This is whey races and cultures that condone those things (Orcs Drow, Thayans etc) get 'evil' placed next to the alignment section of their stat block in the Monster manualIs what an evil person would say.Godwin time, but in Nazi Germany the holocaust wasn't evil.You seem to think just because there is broad acceptance of evil by a group or society, then that thing is no longer evil.Which makes Drow and Orc society Lawful and Good.I'm a solicitor IRL, and we use a rule of Statutory interpretation often; if your reading of a law or bit of Legislation results in a perverse or backwards result to what that legislation intends or states outright, you're reading it wrong.Apply that here.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Flamestrike, post: 7974873, member: 6788736"] [ [I]With a modern definition and context.[/I] The authors of the 5E PHB didnt expect us to look at what is 'good or evil' through the lens of Hitler, or a slave owning murdering Roman rapist, or an Orc mass murderer or a Drow demon worshipping psychopath when determining what is (or is not) morally good or evil. Good means morally good. Altruism, mercy, respect for the lives of others and self sacrifice. Evil means morally evil; harming, oppressing or killing others. Slavery rape and murder is evil. This is whey races and cultures that condone those things (Orcs Drow, Thayans etc) get 'evil' placed next to the alignment section of their stat block in the Monster manual Is what an evil person would say. Godwin time, but in Nazi Germany the holocaust wasn't evil. You seem to think just because there is broad acceptance of evil by a group or society, then that thing is no longer evil. Which makes Drow and Orc society Lawful and Good. I'm a solicitor IRL, and we use a rule of Statutory interpretation often; if your reading of a law or bit of Legislation results in a perverse or backwards result to what that legislation intends or states outright, you're reading it wrong. Apply that here. [/QUOTE]

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