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<blockquote data-quote="GreenTengu" data-source="post: 6917375" data-attributes="member: 6777454">You know though... the sheer amount of people looking to justify any PC's actions to dodge labeling the PC &quot;evil&quot;....Think about all the denizens of the world one unhesitatingly paints with a big paint brush as universally evil so that one can slaughter them all without hesitation or regard. Goblins, Orcs, Drow, Hobgoblins, Rakshasa, Naga....As races that have to survive and cooperate long enough to breed, cloth themselves, create or adapt structures, basically form any sort of functional society at all... If they all universally acted quite evil enough that if one was judging it on the standards of just how evil a PC needs to be in order to be labeled evil, I can confidently state that they would have been extinct long before the PCs were ever born into the world.So what does &quot;evil&quot; even mean where if you are the wrong race, you are automatically &quot;evil&quot; unless you make great strides (usually involving betraying and slaughtering your own siblings, neighbors and peers for the benefit of a foreign people) in order to prove otherwise and if you live a pretty neutral life where you just do what you need to do to survive and go along with the generally aggressive and xenophobic peer group, you are evil...BUT, if you are of the &quot;right&quot; race, then you really, REALLY need to go far beyond the bounds of reason (usually involving slaughtering your own siblings, neighbors and peers for the benefit of yourself or an ancient creature) in order to ever be labeled as &quot;evil&quot;-- particularly if you are a &quot;PC&quot;.The more one delves into it, the more the alignment system in just utter crap and fails on the most basic of levels. Or, in the very least, it is wildly misapplied within the structure of the world so as to be subjective from the PC's point of view rather than some omniscient neutral entity classifying things judicially.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GreenTengu, post: 6917375, member: 6777454"] You know though... the sheer amount of people looking to justify any PC's actions to dodge labeling the PC "evil".... Think about all the denizens of the world one unhesitatingly paints with a big paint brush as universally evil so that one can slaughter them all without hesitation or regard. Goblins, Orcs, Drow, Hobgoblins, Rakshasa, Naga.... As races that have to survive and cooperate long enough to breed, cloth themselves, create or adapt structures, basically form any sort of functional society at all... If they all [B]universally[/B] acted quite evil enough that if one was judging it on the standards of just how evil a PC needs to be in order to be labeled evil, I can confidently state that they would have been extinct long before the PCs were ever born into the world. So what does "evil" even mean where if you are the wrong race, you are automatically "evil" unless you make great strides (usually involving betraying and slaughtering your own siblings, neighbors and peers for the benefit of a foreign people) in order to prove otherwise and if you live a pretty neutral life where you just do what you need to do to survive and go along with the generally aggressive and xenophobic peer group, you are evil... BUT, if you are of the "right" race, then you really, REALLY need to go far beyond the bounds of reason (usually involving slaughtering your own siblings, neighbors and peers for the benefit of yourself or an ancient creature) in order to ever be labeled as "evil"-- particularly if you are a "PC". The more one delves into it, the more the alignment system in just utter crap and fails on the most basic of levels. Or, in the very least, it is wildly misapplied within the structure of the world so as to be subjective from the PC's point of view rather than some omniscient neutral entity classifying things judicially. [/QUOTE]

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