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wolfy42 posted...

Why are demons always bad?

For the same reasons "unicorns" always have a single horn on their head. Because it's basically the primary defining characteristic of the thing in question.

Though in the case of demons what you're saying isn't even true, considering there are tons of stories that present demons as either being sympathetic, misunderstood, or more or less framed for being evil. Or have demons be evil, but then immediately present a counter-example (like Planescape: Torment having a succubus who's sworn a vow of chastity). If anything, modern day stories are FAR more likely to present demons as being "good" or at least protagonists than they are to play them as one-dimensional boogah-boogah monsters.

Hell, in a lot of modern stories, humans are always the real monsters.



DocDelicious posted...

Ummm...no? Only in Christian cultures are demons explicitly evil.

Also the Judaic cultures where the entire concept of demons originated, and the Islamic cultures that sprang from both.

But there's also the added problem that the word "demon" really only applies to Judaeo-Christian demons in the first place (the word was invented to describe them specifically, not as a generic term for any evil spirit or entity), so if you're talking about stuff like Hindu asuras or Japanese onis, those technically aren't demons anyway (and even if they were, most of them are explicitly evil - or at least malicious - regardless).


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