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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mlund" data-source="post: 4720184" data-attributes="member: 50304">Well, wiping out an entire species or family isn't evil in and of itself. Vaporizing all those darn face-huggers of "Aliens" fame, for example, wouldn't be an act of evil. Wiping out a strain of bacteria wouldn't be either.We're talking about sapient creatures here, though. One could argue that there are some races or classifications of sapient creatures that don't really have free-will: that they are always and automatically forces of malice and evil. Wiping them out wholesale could likewise be argued as not evil in and of itself.What make's V's act evil in D&D is its indiscriminate nature. It could very well kill Good and Neutral creatures who would never think to V or V's family. Though collateral damage is an ugly fact of life when major have a conflict around bystanders, this was no such exchange. This was akin to executing everyone around the battlefield so that no potential enemy combatant could escape. The possibility of catching a few innocents in your net is the reason why non-Evil folks would take prisoners in such circumstance rather than resort to indiscriminate mass-killings.- Marty Lund</blockquote>