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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kalanyr" data-source="post: 1743119" data-attributes="member: 190">Hmm, some interesting arguments here but a few points I want to make.a) Negative Energy is NOT inherently evil, the Negative Energy Plane is unaligned. Ditto for Positive Energy with respect to good. These planes are the greatest concentrations of theses energies in the entire multiverse its safe to say that if these energies had an innate alignment these planes would definitely be aligned.b) There is certainly a perception of alignment to them after all most of us view death as evil and life as good. This is probably why the books seem to waiver on this topic. c) Isis effectively made Osiris a mummy, and neither deity was viewed as evil in Egypt. In fact Osiris was a banner bearer for good in their religion.And now for my opinion: Animate Dead is evil by default in D&D because in the literature D&D is associated with the necromancer is the bad guy who raises armies of the foul dead to serve his malign purposes, most of the Necromancy school suffers from this, and this has become more pronounced since 3e since healing has been moved to the conjuration school. And on a moral level it easy to justify it as binding the soul to the corpse, probably the only way to justify it really, since a) making Flesh Golems isn't Evil and b) nor is using Animate Obect on a corpse.</blockquote>