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Message: <blockquote data-quote="omedon" data-source="post: 144417" data-attributes="member: 837">I think a lot of people make the mistake of confusing EVIL with INSANE or SOCIOPATH.Evil does NOT equal psychotic. Depending on your definition; evil may include crazy or psychotic, but it shouldn't necessitate it.Evil is the used car dealer who set back the odometer on the car he sold you, and said it was once driven by John Voit (NE). Evil is befriending a guy just so you can get closer to his wife. Evil is not paying your taxes. Evil is manipulating other people, achieving your ends by whatever means neccessary with no consideration for others.Oh sure, you could kill that family in order to get their land. But that would attract uneeded attention from the authorities regarding your plans. It would be much easier on you, and less messy if you kidnapped their youngest son and ransomed him for the land. You sign a nice tidy contract, the land is yours, and you can start implementing your evil plan to take control of the city.To me evil is corporate america: climbing your way to the top no matter who you have to step on, you lie, cheat, manipulate, whatever it takes.You take oppurtunities when they present themselves to you. For example, you and your brother may inherret 10 million dollars. To get the bigger share you would never do anything dumb like murder him in cold blood at the workplace, but you may arrange an "accident" on your next ski trip. Think of the Movie "Ghost"Even serial killers act somewhat normal most of the time, they wouldn't last very long in the world or kill many victims if they weren't sneaky about it and conformed to most of the rules in their day to day lives.Complete sociopathic behaviour won't get you very far, All but the most chaotic characters are going to have to conform to at least some rules, or they wouldn't last very long.So total and complete insane sociopaths ARE nearly impossible to make a good game out of, largely because unless they are the most powerful beings around they are going to have their reign stopped really quickly. Conventional evil though, is much easier to fit into a campaign. I daresay many people seem to break the rules and get away scott free.If crime didn't pay there would not be so many criminals.</blockquote>

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