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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ShinHakkaider" data-source="post: 3388334" data-attributes="member: 9213">He committed premedated murder against another law enforcement offical for no other reason than to cover his own tracks. He uses blackmail extortion and theft to cover his tracks, he constantly breaks the laws that he has sworn to uphold in order to, wait for it...cover his tracks. Make no mistake, even though we understand his motivations for his actions and in some cases empathize with them, it in no way excuses those actions. Vic has some good in him (he cares for his friends and family), but by no stretch of the imagination a good guy. The fact that his willing to in some cases arbitrarily murder people to cover his tracks makes him evil. Stealing from drug dealers is still theft and blackmailing and intimidating his fellow officers for personal gain is not the act of a good man. He's selfish and lets that selfishness motivate his actions, not as much later on in the series but very much so early on. Yeah I agree with Jeff on this one. Seriously. Some of the posts on this thread are kinda scary but typical of the conversations that I've had with many a role player about morality and what it means to actually be a good or evil person. I agree that alot of times there are areas of gray, but it's in the extreme cases where that kind of morality is a little easier to define. Vic is definitely an extreme case as presented. A show a little more nuanced, detailed and better written like THE WIRE in some cases it makes a characters morality a little harder to call.</blockquote>

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