Evil vs. Evil
Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 2:05 pm
Hello,
As it came up over and over again, talking about, good and evil and their extremes. I wanted to throw this philosophical thing into the wild and see what other people think about it.
Currently I do see a lot of people being confused between 'black' and 'white'. I see a lot of people taking extremist stances (which is fine, don't get me wrong), but I wonder if people believe that there's 'one way' to be evil or good if you follow a certain deity.
For example, there could be a thief who makes a living of planting information in between friendly parties to distract them from a heist. Or a cleric of an Evil deity who reaches their goals rather through negotiations, false offerings, trickery and threats. Is that cleric any less evil then their counterparts who go and use raw force ? I do no think so, he's just a more cunning kind of evil. A even more difficult and more intimidating one then raw power can ever be.
Same goes for good. Someone who focuses soly on the protection of, say arborea, but does not care about the undead, is that person good ? Is he evil ?
And are those characters playable? I do get the impression everybody feels to be driven to the edges of the spectrum, which is totally ok to be fanatic about something and be on the extreme of good vs. evil. We need those characters and they add to the game. But there should be room for 'shades of gray' and I think in our RP we should permit people to have that shade of gray. Sometimes those are the more cunning, harder to discern persons.
poGlorfindel
As it came up over and over again, talking about, good and evil and their extremes. I wanted to throw this philosophical thing into the wild and see what other people think about it.
Currently I do see a lot of people being confused between 'black' and 'white'. I see a lot of people taking extremist stances (which is fine, don't get me wrong), but I wonder if people believe that there's 'one way' to be evil or good if you follow a certain deity.
For example, there could be a thief who makes a living of planting information in between friendly parties to distract them from a heist. Or a cleric of an Evil deity who reaches their goals rather through negotiations, false offerings, trickery and threats. Is that cleric any less evil then their counterparts who go and use raw force ? I do no think so, he's just a more cunning kind of evil. A even more difficult and more intimidating one then raw power can ever be.
Same goes for good. Someone who focuses soly on the protection of, say arborea, but does not care about the undead, is that person good ? Is he evil ?
And are those characters playable? I do get the impression everybody feels to be driven to the edges of the spectrum, which is totally ok to be fanatic about something and be on the extreme of good vs. evil. We need those characters and they add to the game. But there should be room for 'shades of gray' and I think in our RP we should permit people to have that shade of gray. Sometimes those are the more cunning, harder to discern persons.
poGlorfindel