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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Trickstergod" data-source="post: 1269282" data-attributes="member: 10825">A highly unsatisfactory ending, that. All right, let's see my weighing in on this...Is Dominating someone evil? It all depends on the individual doing it in the first place, and the person they're doing it to, primarily. One mark of an evil individual, in my opinion, is hypocrisy. Those who say one thing and do another wish others to sacrifice, but will not do so themselves. As such, an individual who highly praises freedom, and will rail up and down against those who would oppress him, then makes use of powers of domination breaks into hypocrisy, and from there, starts tending towards a darker nature. Conversely, forcing people into doing things they don't want to do also isn't the best course of actions. If, for example, you know that someone would rather die than live a slave, by turning them into a thrall or puppet of some sort is a worse act than simply killing them may be. If someone's motto is, "You may take our lives, but you may never take our freedom," and the individual with mind-controlling powers lets that someone keep his life, but not his freedom, that also starts tending towards actions of a darker nature. On the other hand, if someone values their life more than their freedom, than casting a finger of death upon the individual when you could just as readily turn them into a thrall makes for the more evil act, if you know which they value more. Going along the lines of what one would prefer to suffer through again, I would say this: Your average Lawful individual is willing to compromise their individuality for the benefit of the many, whereas your average Chaotic individuals are willing to risk their lives for their freedom (particularly well witnessed amongst stereotypical Chaotic Evil individuals, who tend towards excessive amounts of violence - they'll act however they damn well please, and will fight those who would deny them that). As such, I would give more leeway to a Lawful individual who makes use of dominating powers than one of a Chaotic nature. All told, though, it really depends on just how one makes use of their ability to dominate others. The powers themselves usually aren't evil, but the way one uses them. But, a lot of that's already been gone over. Namely, I'm still refuting the idea that Chaos is just evil-lite, and that Law is good-lite, which seems to be cropping up here and there in this thread.</blockquote>

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