by LaconianShot » Sun Apr 17, 2005 10:57 pm
Starlight, in one month's time I will remind you that you stood up for Mage1, and you'll wonder why you ever did so...<br><blockquote>Is it logical or reasonable to take the rules of a fantasy writer that hardly anyone has heard of so seriously?</blockquote> <br>I guess being a New York Times Bestselling author means that nobody's heard of you, correct? Just because <i>you're</i> ignorant doesn't mean that everybody else is as well.<br><blockquote>Evil is only what you make it. Nothing is truly evil: people only call something "evil" if they believe it is wrong. To the kids that shot up Colombine, what they did was not evil, even though the rest of us thought it to be.</blockquote> <br>This has some merit, Gipper, but it's a little skewed. Essentially you're saying that <i>all</i> evil is subjective. Not true. There are certain objective evils that while being subjective to the person commiting them, are objectively evil to nearly everybody else. For example, the genocide of the Jews at the hands of Hitler is a truly objective evil. No, not to Hitler and his Nazi regime, but then we must question the state of mind that Hitler was in. Indeed, I believe he was insane. As for his followers, whether they were in a like state of mind or not, they all had some sort of gain to following Hitler. So, there are objective evils, Gipper. Not to mention that whether or not it's subjective to the person is irrelevant when that person is commiting something that our consciences tell us is morally wrong.