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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 1741938" data-attributes="member: 707">I'm not tripped up at all, I just happen to believe you are wrong.  Self-interest at the cost of others is evil.  Survival at the cost of others, when other options are available, can be evil if taken to extremes.  And killing is certainly taking it to extremes.  The reason animals are Neutral is because they aren't sentient, not because their only interest is survival.Natural selection, when practiced by sentient beings on other sentient beings, is evil.  The American colonists killing off the Native Americans was natural selection.  The Japanese killing off the native Hokkaidans was natural selection.  Indeed, among sentient beings we have another word for "natural selection."  It's called genocide.  I'd be interested in your defense of genocide as a neutral act.That's just it, Goth.  It doesn't require they kill other sentients.  They could just as easily raise cows.  That's right, raise livestock, for the express purpose of using the livestock to breed.  They don't.  Instead, they inject their eggs into anything they come across.  They choose to disregard sentient life.  And that's evil.Aiding someone else because it's in your own best interests is not a good act.  It's a selfish act, which is at best neutral, and at worst evil.Again, let me reclarify that I'm not putting forth the opinion that Neutrality is a matter of Good and Evil in perfect balance.  Not at all.  There are shades of grey that are made up of various good and evil impulses.  It's when faced with the complete absence of one of the defining poles, that something can no longer be Neutral and must fall under the jurisdiction of the opposite pole.  If slaadi commited good acts, even occasionally, then they could rightfully claim an alignment of Chaotic-Neutral with Evil tendancies.But they don't.  Everything they do is either Evil, or sometimes Neutral.  If anything, that makes them Chaotic-Evil with Neutral tendancies.</blockquote>

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