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<blockquote data-quote="Vaalingrade" data-source="post: 8576304" data-attributes="member: 82524">Thing is, my answer isn't sarcastic except the dig on FR.Ghosts are non-evil because there's too many stories about Good or at least non-evil ghosts to pull off the 'spawn of satan's lawyer' crap. Meanwhile, they really REALLY want should-be-mindless undead to be Eeeeeevil so much that they just pack in as much loaded language as possible and then make them straight up sapient just to get the desired effect.It's bad writing, plain and simple. Inconsistent. Undeath isn't inherently evil. The powers that animate them, which I guess isn't negative energy anymore (?) isn't inherently evil. The author just desires it to be so so bad they break their own rules to do it.It's like when the writer wants everyone to love a character and so writes a story where everyone loves them and the universe breaks its back proving they're right, creating a Mary Sue. The result is from just plain bad writing and other explanations are really just an independent creative writing exercise.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Vaalingrade, post: 8576304, member: 82524"] Thing is, my answer isn't sarcastic except the dig on FR. Ghosts are non-evil because there's too many stories about Good or at least non-evil ghosts to pull off the 'spawn of satan's lawyer' crap. Meanwhile, they really REALLY want should-be-mindless undead to be Eeeeeevil so much that they just pack in as much loaded language as possible and then make them straight up sapient just to get the desired effect. It's bad writing, plain and simple. Inconsistent. Undeath isn't inherently evil. The powers that animate them, which I guess isn't negative energy anymore (?) isn't inherently evil. The author just desires it to be so so bad they break their own rules to do it. It's like when the writer wants everyone to love a character and so writes a story where everyone loves them and the universe breaks its back proving they're right, creating a Mary Sue. The result is from just plain bad writing and other explanations are really just an independent creative writing exercise. [/QUOTE]

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