Drilling Down into the Nuance of EEEVIL! More on Alignment!
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This reminds me of the movie Schindler's List. Where the businessman starts doing something selfish and ends up "using" the nzi system to try to rescue prisoners of war.
He was not going directly against the system. But he moved within that range to try to do as much good as possible.
Possibly starting as LN and moving to NG by playing with the system.
I love alignment discussions like this. It’s so big, but I agree that intention is the gist, and it has to be gauged in context. If you drop a kind white man into the old US South, what would he do? But I think a lot of things don’t change much even in context. You can even go back to the New Testament where Jesus basically advised the second class Jews to resist passive aggressively by doing more than what was demanded of them, which would shame the soldiers, e.g., turn the other cheek. That implies it wasn’t right to mistreat the lower classes. And of course the throwing stones thing.
As for goblins, I don’t like to put players into that kind of situation, but if I do, I give them clues about what’s right and wrong in this world. Are goblins monsters, or do they have some moral free will?
@@strawpiglet I've always thought of alignment as, in part, an expression of culture. Can there be good goblins? Yes, even immersed in the rag tag world of goblins. However, most become slaves to that culture and respond accordingly.
Evil is just a different way of accomplishing a goal. Bad is something that affects you on a personal level. The whole thing is merely a question of philosophy.
Take the goal of protecting the planet. The method of doing it slow, methodically, and by removing various contamination sources from the planet is considered a good/great goal. It's the guy that realizes that humankind is the main reason the contamination sources exist and opts to remove humanity from the equation that is considered "evil".
Which is why I believe that the idea of good and evil is a cultural or, rather, human idea. We can argue whether or not there are absolute truths in regards to good and evil but we will still do so from a human perspective.