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<blockquote data-quote="Harlock" data-source="post: 190842" data-attributes="member: 4545"><p>SHARK et al,</p><p></p><p>Do good characters think good thoughts in your campaigns? Sure, I can see how it is good to destroy evil (duh) but you seem to assume evil is absolute. Is everything that is evil irrevocably evil? See, my way of thinking assumes good sees hope in the most hopeless of situations. Hardly anything is beyond redemption. Good doesn't damn an entire race because they are usually evil. Good tries to convert and make people (or humanoids etc.) see the error in their ways. Good tries to show evil its shortcomings. Good doesn't kill unless it has to in defense of its own life. To quote the PHB "Good characters and creatures protect innocent life." </p><p></p><p>Evil? Evil doesn't take time to try and convert unless it has time, is convienient or the potential convert isn't easily despensible. Evil doesn't trifle with what may or may not come to be. Evil doesn't see much hope in anything but itself (since one can only truly rely on one's self.) To quote the PHB "'Evil' implies hurting, oppressing and killing others."</p><p></p><p>Neutrality? Neutral may mean you don't fit easily into either category. Sometimes you see hope, sometimes Neutral just doesn't care. To quote the PHB "People who are neutral with respect to good and evil have compunctions agaisnt killing the innocent but lack the commitment to make sacrifices to protect or help others." </p><p></p><p>I just don't see how murdering cowering, wimpering hobgoblin children is not evil. You cannot know from EternalKnights original post if these hobgoblins were truly innocent, but evil would be the one that judged and executed summarily based on an assumption. Good would take the time to find out or at least let the hobgoblins prove otherwise. Neutral, well, I don't think murder is a neutral issue unless you cannot or do not know right from wrong. Neutral should not be an excuse to kill what you do not know is not innocent. Again, one act does not an alignment make. I'm not saying the chaotic neutral elf that has spawned this thread with his action is evil, but I am saying murder is.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Harlock, post: 190842, member: 4545"] SHARK et al, Do good characters think good thoughts in your campaigns? Sure, I can see how it is good to destroy evil (duh) but you seem to assume evil is absolute. Is everything that is evil irrevocably evil? See, my way of thinking assumes good sees hope in the most hopeless of situations. Hardly anything is beyond redemption. Good doesn't damn an entire race because they are usually evil. Good tries to convert and make people (or humanoids etc.) see the error in their ways. Good tries to show evil its shortcomings. Good doesn't kill unless it has to in defense of its own life. To quote the PHB "Good characters and creatures protect innocent life." Evil? Evil doesn't take time to try and convert unless it has time, is convienient or the potential convert isn't easily despensible. Evil doesn't trifle with what may or may not come to be. Evil doesn't see much hope in anything but itself (since one can only truly rely on one's self.) To quote the PHB "'Evil' implies hurting, oppressing and killing others." Neutrality? Neutral may mean you don't fit easily into either category. Sometimes you see hope, sometimes Neutral just doesn't care. To quote the PHB "People who are neutral with respect to good and evil have compunctions agaisnt killing the innocent but lack the commitment to make sacrifices to protect or help others." I just don't see how murdering cowering, wimpering hobgoblin children is not evil. You cannot know from EternalKnights original post if these hobgoblins were truly innocent, but evil would be the one that judged and executed summarily based on an assumption. Good would take the time to find out or at least let the hobgoblins prove otherwise. Neutral, well, I don't think murder is a neutral issue unless you cannot or do not know right from wrong. Neutral should not be an excuse to kill what you do not know is not innocent. Again, one act does not an alignment make. I'm not saying the chaotic neutral elf that has spawned this thread with his action is evil, but I am saying murder is. [/QUOTE]
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