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Suprak_the_Stud posted...

I know everyone has different definitions of evil (which is part of the fun of the contest), but to me if someone commits an evil act, knows that its evil, and doesn't care, that is more evil than someone committing that same evil act and not being able to understand that its evil. That's sort of what I mean by things like Pennywise and It being beyond conventional assessments of morality at times.

If you were able to get Pennywise to admit the absolute truth, like you had Wonder Woman's magic lasso, and you asked him if what he was doing was wrong, I think the response would be "of course not - I need to eat and these things are beneath me." Same sort of justification as we might use to eat beef. "You know how badly they treat cows right? You could live just on this meat substitute and leafy greens and these supplements." And the way we justify it to ourselves is sort of "well, yeah, but those are just cows."

To Pennywise, we're the cows. I don't think a trans-dimensional being, a basic eldritch monstrosity has the ability to understand that we're anything other than a source of food.

I disagree with this a lot.

First, I think you don't see what you're doing is wrong to be 'more evil'. If John goes along raping kids, and thinks there's nothing wrong with it, he's not suddenly less evil.

Second, Pennywise doesn't need to feed. He existed before humans did. Millions of years before. Nothing suggests that he would die if he didn't feed on humans. In fact, the opposite is suggested. If tomorrow a sentient species were discovered, and they were delicious would you eat them? Let's assume for a moment they're capable of communicating with us. I really don't think we're the cows to pennywise.

It also definitely understands that we're more than a source of food. After all: It doesn't feed on adults. It only feeds on children. It even taunts Bill over the death of georgie, and taunts him with the idea georgie is still alive. I don't think we do that with chickens, last I checked. Though we do terrible things to chickens, such as keeping them in cages.