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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9530360" data-attributes="member: 6790260">I mean, people can use whatever label they want, but it's a bit disingenuous to call something "Good" when it flagrantly, blatantly is not.Tropes are tools. Some are more useful than others. This is a flagrantly over-used tool, and one almost always used insanely ham-fistedly. Just because it might theoretically be possible to do it well does not mean it is a wise choice to try.I explicitly dealt with that already.A position being reasonable does not necessarily make it Good.Nnnnnope. I don't let authors turn off my brain. If something is simply a bald-faced contradiction, I'm going to call it out as such.You didn't say anything about an afterlife, which is a continuation of existence. You said ending existence. That means nothing. Zip, zero, nada. Absolute and total annihilation. Not even the ineffable, inexpressible whatever that is compatible with the state of Nirvana (since the Buddha explicitly rejected both any assertion of an identifiable "self" and any denial of a "self" as equally leading to wrong results.) Nothing whatsoever. Total zeroing of the scale.Nah. CG has plenty of actions it wouldn't ever do either, no matter what. They're just a different (but in many ways overlapping) set. I would give examples but, well, they're necessarily going to be some of the most horrible things human beings can do to one another, so I think you'll understand why I am choosing not to make a list thereof.I don't see why not. You just scale up the power and the awareness. A D&D deity, say Bahamut, thus has many more irons in the fire, many more things they're aware of and needing to deal with. It's a hell of a lot more complicated, and the deity in question knows there are costs and barriers that smaller beings cannot see. They can still be quite compelling.</blockquote>

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