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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8445390" data-attributes="member: 6915329">Well... it also depends on how intelligent the creature is. Animals generally don't kill other animals for fun or to watch them suffer. Even cats just play with their prey because their instincts are wound up and they can't calm down when the hunt is over. Demons don't just kill, however. They also torture their prey, often coming up with ingeniously cruel methods for doing so. Now, it could be that demons require torture in order to survive. A demon that just kills a guy doesn't "eat," but one who tortures a guy does, even if (or especially if) the guy doesn't die. But if the demon enjoys the act of torturing people? If you have demons who torture and kill out of pure instinct but get no true enjoyment out of it... well, I'd question if they were actually intelligent beings, to be honest.Although to be honest, a creature that tortures to eat--and I don't just mean "plays with their food" but makes tools like whips and chains in order to not only torture their prey but to make the torture last for as long as possible, or even potentially forever--I think I'd be pretty comfortable in saying it was "evil."</blockquote>