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<blockquote data-quote="DreamChaser" data-source="post: 472583" data-attributes="member: 1190"><p>as has come up many times before on these boards, there is a difference between behaving in an immoral or evil way and being an evil person.</p><p></p><p>I would not call a schoolyard bully evil by any stretch of the imagination. I would call him or her young, ignorant, and misguided. An adult bully, perhaps evil. Mostly likely more along the lines of D&D's neutral alignments.</p><p></p><p>Perhaps in the moment of bullying, a bully of any age would show up on a detect evil, but while sitting in class? Probably not.</p><p></p><p>For my game definitions, a person must consistantly choose to behave in a way that is self-involved, harmful, destructive, cruel, etc. in order to be evil. </p><p></p><p>The most clear cut cases are those who revel in such behavior. The one's who wake up one morning and decide to be evil and follow it through.</p><p></p><p>More difficult is the person who does these things beliving that they are good. Would Torquemada (head of the Spanish Inquisition) be evil? What about Hitler? I would say yes, because despite the fact that they believed that they were doing good, they were intentionally behaving in cruel, self-invovled, harmful ways.</p><p></p><p>JMHO of course.</p><p>DC</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DreamChaser, post: 472583, member: 1190"] as has come up many times before on these boards, there is a difference between behaving in an immoral or evil way and being an evil person. I would not call a schoolyard bully evil by any stretch of the imagination. I would call him or her young, ignorant, and misguided. An adult bully, perhaps evil. Mostly likely more along the lines of D&D's neutral alignments. Perhaps in the moment of bullying, a bully of any age would show up on a detect evil, but while sitting in class? Probably not. For my game definitions, a person must consistantly choose to behave in a way that is self-involved, harmful, destructive, cruel, etc. in order to be evil. The most clear cut cases are those who revel in such behavior. The one's who wake up one morning and decide to be evil and follow it through. More difficult is the person who does these things beliving that they are good. Would Torquemada (head of the Spanish Inquisition) be evil? What about Hitler? I would say yes, because despite the fact that they believed that they were doing good, they were intentionally behaving in cruel, self-invovled, harmful ways. JMHO of course. DC [/QUOTE]
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