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<blockquote data-quote="The Shadow" data-source="post: 6382583" data-attributes="member: 16760">Once again, Mouseferatu and I are on the same page here.&nbsp; These are statements I cannot, do not, and will not accept.And I feel strongly enough about it to keep it out of my gaming.&nbsp; It affects me like an intellectual stench.Briefly, in my own view (but it's a very traditional and long-argued one), evil is a privation of the good.&nbsp; It is not a 'thing', it has no equality with good.&nbsp; Evil is, by its very nature, a parasite:&nbsp; It needs good things to prey upon.&nbsp; But the good has no need of evil, any more than a healthy person needs a tapeworm.The same is true of peace and its absence, whether that be war or turmoil.Order and chaos are very interesting in this regard.&nbsp; The reason is that there is more than one kind of order, but only one kind of chaos.&nbsp; &nbsp; This makes the analysis more difficult, and I will not attempt it here;&nbsp; it could perhaps be argued that order does in some sense 'need' chaos so as to be properly defined.&nbsp; (I don't think so myself, but it's at least more superficially plausible.)Now, it could be argued that we humans need to experience evil in order to properly appreciate good, but that leads immediately to questions about why, which in turn land us squarely in matters that cannot be discussed here. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Shadow, post: 6382583, member: 16760"] Once again, Mouseferatu and I are on the same page here. These are statements I cannot, do not, and will not accept. And I feel strongly enough about it to keep it out of my gaming. It affects me like an intellectual stench. Briefly, in my own view (but it's a very traditional and long-argued one), evil is a privation of the good. It is not a 'thing', it has no equality with good. Evil is, by its very nature, a parasite: It needs good things to prey upon. But the good has no need of evil, any more than a healthy person needs a tapeworm. The same is true of peace and its absence, whether that be war or turmoil. Order and chaos are very interesting in this regard. The reason is that there is more than one kind of order, but only one kind of chaos. This makes the analysis more difficult, and I will not attempt it here; it could perhaps be argued that order does in some sense 'need' chaos so as to be properly defined. (I don't think so myself, but it's at least more superficially plausible.) Now, it could be argued that we humans need to experience evil in order to properly appreciate good, but that leads immediately to questions about why, which in turn land us squarely in matters that cannot be discussed here. :) [/QUOTE]

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