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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kurotowa" data-source="post: 2554631" data-attributes="member: 27957">As an aside, let me say you have a veeery strange view of bears.  :\   People have been taming bears and other dangerous animals for all of recorded history.  Heck, try to catch Growing Up Grizzly on Animal Planet to see the most adorable grizzly bears play-wrestling with their owners and eating ice cream.  They're the nicest, friendliest animals you could want to know.  Just really big and too strong for their own good.Back on topic, most people seem to be advancing one of the two options I pointed out.  Either orcs are naturally evil due to divine mandate and their unbreakable innate character, or they're free willed sentients who have every chance of assimilating into a less evil culture if given the chance.  If the first is true then allowing a single orc to survive might be an Evil act.  If the second is true then murdering innocent children is absolutely an Evil act.  The debate is over which is true.As Patryn points out, the Core D&D books don't make a judgement.  They leave the topic to the campaign worlds.  In ones where Evil is a tangible cosmic force, like Middle Earth or Krynn, orcs are innately Evil end of story.  In one where the gods are more distant and alignment felt less strongly, like Eberron and many homegames, orcs and other "often evil" races have much greater freedom to take on new cultures.  Like all questions that come down to setting instead of mechanics there is no single right answer.</blockquote>

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