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<blockquote data-quote="Malin Genie" data-source="post: 957350" data-attributes="member: 1058">With unintelligent undead the souls are not involved; you are using negative energy to move the flesh and bones around.&nbsp; So I don't think the whole 'bondage of souls is bad' explanation fits.On the other hand, you can't raise or speak with animated dead, so perhaps you could say that the act of animating the corpse severs the soul's connection to the body - that could itself be considered evil....?Also as already noted, even if Negative Energy itself is not evil, manipulating/channeling Negative Energy has been defined to be Evil - end of story.In relative morality terms, I prefer to see it as no more evil that using animate object - it just happens that the object in question is a corpse.&nbsp; &nbsp; But DnD uses a system of absolutes, so whether acts are ethically good, bad or indifferent to our scrutiny is in the end irrelevant to whether they are Good or Evil.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Malin Genie, post: 957350, member: 1058"] With unintelligent undead the souls are not involved; you are using negative energy to move the flesh and bones around. So I don't think the whole 'bondage of souls is bad' explanation fits. On the other hand, you can't [i]raise[/i] or [i]speak with[/i] animated dead, so perhaps you could say that the act of animating the corpse severs the soul's connection to the body - that could itself be considered evil....? Also as already noted, even if Negative Energy itself is not evil, manipulating/channeling Negative Energy has been defined to be Evil - end of story. In relative morality terms, I prefer to see it as no more evil that using [i]animate object[/i] - it just happens that the object in question is a corpse. But DnD uses a system of absolutes, so whether acts are ethically good, bad or indifferent to our scrutiny is in the end irrelevant to whether they are [i]Good[/i] or [i]Evil[/i]. [/QUOTE]

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