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<blockquote data-quote="Levistus's_Leviathan" data-source="post: 8616599" data-attributes="member: 7023887">This is the thing: a ton of personality traits can be used for good or evil depending on the context. Do you love your family/friends more than anything in the world? That's normally an admirable quality. But what if someone loves their family/friends so much that they would be literally willing to sacrifice the world to save their lives? Not so admirable. Do you want to make the world a better place? Okay, great. Better for who? Who says that your version of a better world would actually make it a better place? Are you extremely driven and focused on your goals? That's good, right? Well, not if you happen to push away your friends and family while hyperfocusing on a specific part of your life (your job, your hobbies, etc). Are you incredibly selfish? Okay, that's normally bad. But what if your selfishness drives you to save the world because you're one of the idiots that happens to live on it? That's an admirable quality. You did a good thing, even if your intentions were bad. Personality traits don't exist in a vacuum and are typically not universally good or bad. Plenty of personality traits that we think are good/admirable/heroic could actually be extremely bad for someone to have in a ton of different circumstances. Plenty of personality traits that we think are bad/unheroic can be really good in specific circumstances. A well-intentioned White Robe Mage could definitely be, in their actions, a bad person. The inverse applies to Black Robe Mages. Your actions determine your alignment, not your mindset. If you do evil things (murder children), it doesn't matter if you had good intentions, you're still an evil person. And vice versa.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Levistus's_Leviathan, post: 8616599, member: 7023887"] This is the thing: a ton of personality traits can be used for good or evil depending on the context. Do you love your family/friends more than anything in the world? That's normally an admirable quality. But what if someone loves their family/friends so much that they would be literally willing to sacrifice the world to save their lives? Not so admirable. Do you want to make the world a better place? Okay, great. Better for who? Who says that your version of a better world would actually make it a better place? Are you extremely driven and focused on your goals? That's good, right? Well, not if you happen to push away your friends and family while hyperfocusing on a specific part of your life (your job, your hobbies, etc). Are you incredibly selfish? Okay, that's normally bad. But what if your selfishness drives you to save the world because you're one of the idiots that happens to live on it? That's an admirable quality. You did a good thing, even if your intentions were bad. Personality traits don't exist in a vacuum and are typically not universally good or bad. Plenty of personality traits that we think are good/admirable/heroic could actually be extremely bad for someone to have in a ton of different circumstances. Plenty of personality traits that we think are bad/unheroic can be really good in specific circumstances. A well-intentioned White Robe Mage could definitely be, in their actions, a bad person. The inverse applies to Black Robe Mages. Your actions determine your alignment, not your mindset. If you do evil things (murder children), it doesn't matter if you had good intentions, you're still an evil person. And vice versa. [/QUOTE]

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