The inner or real Demon?

[Henry]

Riding on the heels of the biblical quote (To beware those things that destroy the spirit), is the Shakespearean quote about cowards dying a thousand deaths. Those things that kill the spirit of a person kill that person as surely as a physical tragedy. I physical death is one thing; the person's works and deeds stand thereafter.

Whether you have a Religious creed or faith, or not, it remains that no physical violence can erase the good deeds that a person does, nor the ways in which they touched another's life. However, something that kills the 'inner person,' that turns a person foul and corrupt, that makes all that person's deeds worthless, or worse, something that steal their faculties and makes them incapable of living a full life, is a tragedy to see that just keeps happening - over, and over, and over, and.....


So, (to use a fantasy example) I believe that a paladin would far prefer a demon he could see and skewer, than one who corrupted and twisted him from within.

 

[Zappo]

As much as I am tempted to say that "inner demons" are worse (if nothing else, because they make for better movie plots)... I have a few considerations to make:

- I am 100% sure that any Alien-class thing can eat me no problem no matter what I do.
- I think I have at least some chances of resisting any kind of mind trick or other such stuff.
- I strongly believe that death is final.

Therefore, I fear physical attacks much more.