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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 8855188" data-attributes="member: 42856">I generally agree with you. I also think that most people in this debate seem to consider humans to be 100% free-willed, with no instinctive drive at all, or they take human insctinct as a baseline for any sentient species that one could meet in D&D. So "a drive to do X", where X is a behaviour that would be labelled evil, is dismissed as a lack of free will, despite our own drives (sexual drives, overeating drives, fear...) governing our behaviour more often than we'd like.This is compounded by the fact that probably every adjective, even positive one, have been historically affixed to a human group, so if you say "they tend to be X", there is a strong chance that you're copying a racist/xenophobic trope somewhere.</blockquote>