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<blockquote data-quote="Shardstone" data-source="post: 9539760" data-attributes="member: 6807784">Trauma can beget evil pretty easily, and trauma can be caused by non-sentient sources. Man helps build a bridge. Man makes earnest mistakes building the bridge. Bridge collapses and wipes out half of a family. Survivor of the family wants justice but the system respects that this was a mistake and gives the bridge-builder a hefty fine. Man who lost half his family spirals due to having little support in his small peasant community. Begins to have dark thoughts. Eventually acts on dark thoughts.This may seem implausible, but C-PTSD can cause some people to veer towards antisocial behaviors. Trauma can also trigger other disorders, like Bipolar, which can lead to manic episodes wherein the sufferer does out-of-character things that can easily be perceived as evil or, at the very least, chaotic or harmful. Likewise, drug addition can happen even when prescribed rugs like opiates -- milk of the poppy in ancient times -- and can cause people to resort to pretty loathsome behaviors as the addiction twists and turns them.We can par back all the realistic stuff and go pure Fantasy, saying: man's child dies. He can't accept it. He'd do anything to have them back. They were his rock, his everything. Over time, he spirals and turns to black magic to try and ease the pain of the loss. Everyone in the world, including the gods, can be universally good, but tragedies and misfortune still happen, and tragedies make more villains then evil gods do. That's because pain + human creativity and problem solving ability = dark &quot;evil&quot; things being reinvented.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Shardstone, post: 9539760, member: 6807784"] Trauma can beget evil pretty easily, and trauma can be caused by non-sentient sources. Man helps build a bridge. Man makes earnest mistakes building the bridge. Bridge collapses and wipes out half of a family. Survivor of the family wants justice but the system respects that this was a mistake and gives the bridge-builder a hefty fine. Man who lost half his family spirals due to having little support in his small peasant community. Begins to have dark thoughts. Eventually acts on dark thoughts. This may seem implausible, but C-PTSD can cause some people to veer towards antisocial behaviors. Trauma can also trigger other disorders, like Bipolar, which can lead to manic episodes wherein the sufferer does out-of-character things that can easily be perceived as evil or, at the very least, chaotic or harmful. Likewise, drug addition can happen even when prescribed rugs like opiates -- milk of the poppy in ancient times -- and can cause people to resort to pretty loathsome behaviors as the addiction twists and turns them. We can par back all the realistic stuff and go pure Fantasy, saying: man's child dies. He can't accept it. He'd do anything to have them back. They were his rock, his everything. Over time, he spirals and turns to black magic to try and ease the pain of the loss. Everyone in the world, including the gods, can be universally good, but tragedies and misfortune still happen, and tragedies make more villains then evil gods do. That's because pain + human creativity and problem solving ability = dark "evil" things being reinvented. [/QUOTE]

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