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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 2214279" data-attributes="member: 11697">*ears twitch in annoyance*"Well damn, talk about going small scale for a change. Only a single orphanage burnt down? I find it much for satisfying to kill the local cleric and slowly pervert the populace, or bring down a plague and offer to heal them all in exchange for their kids. That sort of thing tends to be much more satisfying. Good thing you killed him, prevents that sort of wussy evil from staying within the ranks. You've helped out the cause of abstract evil, thank you." <img src="http://arcanofox.foxpaws.net/shemmysmile.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> Now, what if that 'loth had struck a bargain to save 1 million innocents in exchange for the souls of that orphanage's innocents? Good can come out of evil, depending on how you look at it. Killing him when you didn't know what he was doing might have saved some lives but condemned millions. Probably not 99.9% of the time, but still.But now it's all about intention in many ways. Beings of good kill beings of good. Aasimon/Angels die by the millions at the behest of their patron deities or pantheons over minor issues of theology. The upper planes as a whole however just don't go into a genocidal nightmarish war to end all wars like the lower planes do; their love of good overrides their gulfs of opinion over the law/chaos issue. Those Devas will kill because they have to in the name of their deity, or because it will promote a greater good, they may not enjoy it though. A fiend is going to enjoy the act itself. Baatezu will enjoy tyranny as they conquer and enslave and torture, Tanar'ri will enjoy it when they butcher anything within reach regardless of it being friend or foe, and the 'loth will make Judas look like Mother Theresa as it lives a life of good while posing as a mortal only to then sell out its allies and slowly kill them and do naughty things to the corpse while their kids watch.</blockquote>

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