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<blockquote data-quote="Falling Icicle" data-source="post: 4310011" data-attributes="member: 17077">I already adressed that issue, but I'll repeat, I think it was stupid that mindless undead had alignments, simply because they were undead. They were MINDLESS. Mindless beings can't think, much less have morals.I've never said there should be a &quot;sliding&quot; definition of good vs evil. To me, it's always seemed pretty clear. Good people care for others (in a general sense), evil people do not. Evil is about pursuing your own goals and desires without any regard for the rights of others. You will kill, enslave, destroy, steal, etc, because you don't care about anyone but yourself. So to me, considering that rather clear definition of what evil is, the act of creating a mindless automaton from the corpse of a dead creature is not evil, because it doesn't harm anyone.But what is goodness, exactly? Shouldn't the alignment of a creature be determined by its intentions and actions rather than the type of energy it's composed of? I think it should. Even the purest angel can fall from grace and become evil.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Falling Icicle, post: 4310011, member: 17077"] I already adressed that issue, but I'll repeat, I think it was stupid that mindless undead had alignments, simply because they were undead. They were MINDLESS. Mindless beings can't think, much less have morals. I've never said there should be a "sliding" definition of good vs evil. To me, it's always seemed pretty clear. Good people care for others (in a general sense), evil people do not. Evil is about pursuing your own goals and desires without any regard for the rights of others. You will kill, enslave, destroy, steal, etc, because you don't care about anyone but yourself. So to me, considering that rather clear definition of what evil is, the act of creating a mindless automaton from the corpse of a dead creature is not evil, because it doesn't harm anyone. But what is goodness, exactly? Shouldn't the alignment of a creature be determined by its intentions and actions rather than the type of energy it's composed of? I think it should. Even the purest angel can fall from grace and become evil. [/QUOTE]

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