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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Uller" data-source="post: 311319" data-attributes="member: 413">In that case, it is not the use of poison that is evil.  For instance (since you bring up fairy tales) in Snow White, the Queen first tries to have Snow White murdered by a woodsman.  That act is not seen as any less evil than when she poisons the girl later.   It is not the poisoning that is evil.  It is murdering a child out of jealousy and vanity that is evil.  In many stories, poison is a vehicle used by evil characters because cowardice is seen as a trait common among scoundrels, or it is seen as a particularly nasty death (like placing someone in an eteranal death-like slumber).So...my point is that poison use is not INHERENTLY evil because there are ways it can be used that are good.   If there are reasonably common ways to do something without it being evil then it cannot be inherently evil.</blockquote>