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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 1165104" data-attributes="member: 3146">This seems, at least to me, to seriously misread human motivations. The evil priest who sacrifices babies to Tharizdun has human motivations. (Maybe he wants power so that he can pay back the parents who refused to nurture his artistic talents; maybe he wants vengeance upon a town that he thinks wronged him, or maybe he just wants to live "the life"--gold, girls, and drink (Tharizdun provides him with power he uses or plans to use to get beer, bimbos and bling bling)). It doesn't make him any less despicable. The barbarian king who tortures his enemies to death then impales them on spikes on his front lawn has human motivations. (He likes the feeling of power that their screams give him and thinks that displaying their dismembered corpses demonstrates that he is a fearsome enemy). It doesn't make him any less cruel. Heck, if you have a cosmology where demons and devils are fallen celestials, they also may have humanly understandable motivations. But even if they're motivated by pride, spite, and envy as well as motiveless malice, they're still just as evil. None of those human motivations that make them evil rather than EEVEEIL makes them any less evil than you seem to assume that they are. That bandits on the road probably have humanly understandable motives doesn't excuse them in the least.Everyone's got a reason.(It's also a stretch to say that the band of bandits hasn't hurt anyone yet--odds are good they've robbed people before and they clearly intend to hurt people even if you're generous enough (far too generous for rationality, IMO) to give them the benefit of the doubt).</blockquote>

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