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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LokiDR" data-source="post: 872353" data-attributes="member: 6239">I don't know if racism is a good term for killing a giant just because their species is "usually evil".  I do know that is this a blatant form of discrimination.  Unless you have very good notion that the entity has commited actions against society, killing them would be unfounded and therefore wanton killing - Evil.Perhaps a better term for this form of discrimination would be termed "speciation".As for killing an entity just because they are evil, I offer the following example:  A man well past his prime, abandoned by his children, and bitter in his old age.  He hates everyone.  He will tell you it to your face.  If he saw a person dying on the road, he wouldn't help them.  He enjoys killing small animals.  This man is evil, and will detect as such.  However, he has done nothing in his life to warent a death sentence, and as such should not be killed.  Killing him would be wanton destruction.  Even Evil has it's grades.Some creatures in fantasy, such as devils, are the embodyment of evil, and can be killed with good faith that they have, or definately would, commit evil to justify this.  You are doing the world a favor.  This only works because D&D is a GAME that has some absolutes.  Life does not have these kinds of certainties.</blockquote>