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<blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 8372394" data-attributes="member: 7635"><p>There is a difference between knowing and not acting and tolerating or accepting. You can know about something, disagree with it, and still be powerless to stop it. I propose that drow know about the atrocities being performed and either a.) Shrug with indifference since it doesn't affect them; b.) Accept it as necessary for the good of the drow; or c.) Support those who are doing it, even if they aren't doing it themselves. I don't see many who fall into d.) Know it's wrong and are unable to stop it. </p><p></p><p>And yes, there is still some pragmatism among good aligned peoples. Perhaps save for some rather zealotrous paladins, most cultures don't fight perpetual endless war (especially longer-lived races who measure time and resources differently, they're not all humans with masks, remember?) So elves and dwarves in true Tolkien fashion don't tend to get involved in their neighbor's problems. Tolkien also (rightly) calls them out in this flaw too; the dwarves are decimated and broken, the elves in retreat. Even the hobbits are not able to save themselves until Frodo and company return with the knowledge of how to fight to save the Shire. But in the end they do fight for what is right. </p><p></p><p>I just reject the notion the common Drow, halfling and human all coming from different societies would have the same moral compass and thus your typical drow farmer would have the same objections to slavery and demon worship thay a halfling farmer would. They all have the same capacity for good and evil, but the drow have been conditioned to see things in a way others would call "evil"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Remathilis, post: 8372394, member: 7635"] There is a difference between knowing and not acting and tolerating or accepting. You can know about something, disagree with it, and still be powerless to stop it. I propose that drow know about the atrocities being performed and either a.) Shrug with indifference since it doesn't affect them; b.) Accept it as necessary for the good of the drow; or c.) Support those who are doing it, even if they aren't doing it themselves. I don't see many who fall into d.) Know it's wrong and are unable to stop it. And yes, there is still some pragmatism among good aligned peoples. Perhaps save for some rather zealotrous paladins, most cultures don't fight perpetual endless war (especially longer-lived races who measure time and resources differently, they're not all humans with masks, remember?) So elves and dwarves in true Tolkien fashion don't tend to get involved in their neighbor's problems. Tolkien also (rightly) calls them out in this flaw too; the dwarves are decimated and broken, the elves in retreat. Even the hobbits are not able to save themselves until Frodo and company return with the knowledge of how to fight to save the Shire. But in the end they do fight for what is right. I just reject the notion the common Drow, halfling and human all coming from different societies would have the same moral compass and thus your typical drow farmer would have the same objections to slavery and demon worship thay a halfling farmer would. They all have the same capacity for good and evil, but the drow have been conditioned to see things in a way others would call "evil" [/QUOTE]
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