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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zelgadas" data-source="post: 1850195" data-attributes="member: 17044"><p>Personally, I'm a fan of Monte Cook's take on the dichotomy.  Positive energy, or "The Green", is the energy of life and nature.  Negative energy, or "The Dark", is the opposite of this.  This is not a strict life/death dichotomy; note that negative energy does not always cause death, but is most often used to create undeath, a profoundly unnatural state of being.  Death is an element encompassed by the Green; it is a part of the cycle of life, as evidenced by the fact that positive energy can, in fact, be used to kill (at least, it can in Arcana Unearthed; not sure about D&D).  Now, does this make the Green good while the Dark is evil?  Not necessarily.  Nature is neither good nor evil, it simply is.  Since the Green is the energy that drives nature, I would think that it is completely without moral or ethical alignment.  I would argue that the same can be said of the Dark; it is neither good nor evil, it is simply the opposite of nature's driving force.  That said, positive energy often appeals to those who would do good, because of its life-giving tendancies, and negative energy often appeals to those who would do evil, because it is a quicker road to power.  This does not, however, make either force inherently good or evil.</p></blockquote><p></p>