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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scion" data-source="post: 1754286" data-attributes="member: 5777">Unimportant. It is too big of a discussion for this thread. Merely stating that a tool is not inherantly evil, no matter how that tool normally operates, should be enough.Animals can do no evil, no matter what they do really. A baseball bat can do no evil, although whoever weilds it might be able to. As such, a skeleton in and of itself, which is merely powered by some form of energy (much like steam powers some kinds of trains), is not evil. The game says that it is and gives no explanation as to why. That is good enough, unless someone asks 'why'. The answer to that? Just because the game says so. This is not really a sufficient answer to the 'why' question. It can be used, but it is completely unsatisfactory.Why would useing negative energy be considered evil? We could ask the same question for every energy type.So, it is unimportant what I consider to be evil because a nonaligned energies are, by definition, not aligned.Saying that undead are evil because they use negative energy is just like saying a forest fire is evil because it uses fire.Basically, for the d&d system skeletons are evil because the gods say so. But, for the question of 'why' that answer does nothing.</blockquote>