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| Topic | Would you say any of the Daedric princes are good? |
| ParanoidObsessive 10/25/21 4:49:42 PM #24: | Cruddy_horse posted... Quantifying Evil is a slippery slope and is a horrible stance to take. Just because he is not raping people or constantly sacrificing them doesn't mean he's not Evil. It gets even more difficult when you realize that the concept of "good" and "evil" are social constructions, and the line between them can be incredibly murky at times. Video games tend to lazily make things pure black and white, with the villain murdering puppies and orphans and having no redeeming qualities whatsoever while the good guys are super pure and selfless, but in the real world good people can do terrible things, terrible people can do good things, and it's even harder to really quantify the moral value of any given choice when we can really only judge by tangible actions and outcomes rather than by intent, motivation, and prior experience. And of course, there's everyone's favorite philosophical argument lately - the Trolly Problem. Is it more moral to passively allow the suffering of a greater number of people, or actively choose to harm a lesser number to save a greater number? Can an evil deed done for good reasons be good? Or do the ends never truly justify the means? --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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