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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 9529588" data-attributes="member: 2067">1 - Animals and plants are part of samsara, too. They're as capable of nirvana as anything else. A transient existence isn't just transient for humans. 2 - Good in our scenario doesn't force, either. Can't force bliss, after all. It influences, it advises, it helps this process along. It says, "just seek peace, seek tranquility, seek nothingness." Though I'd imagine the "overzealous good" trope would be one the DM would want to bust out at least once in this setting, since an angel who fails in appreciating the value in the lives of others is a very cromulent bit of storytelling here, able to very much show the difference between Good and Neutral and to show that Good, when it falls from its own standards, can be quite a dangerous antagonist. Almost as dangerous as Evil, when it lives up to its own standards!If life and suffering are inextricable from each other, and Good seeks an end to suffering, then life is not inherently Good. There can be bad lives. Lives that produce or endure more suffering. There can be merciful or necessary killings. Life is not the goal, and it doesn't have to be.</blockquote>