Re: IEN Fascists?

In a message dated 98-02-02 10:55:36 EST, you write:

<< 'Michael Childs wrote:'
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 > >From: Magistar2 <Magistar2@???.com>
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 > >Think a moment, what we veiw as evil others might veiw as good.  Each
 > side of
 > >the war consider their sides to be good, after all, we'll we might veiw
 > the
 > >nazis as chaotic and evil, they would consider themselves lawful and
 > good.
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 > Nazis chaotic evil?  They had a dictatorship!  The elves are considered
 > chaotic and in the Monstrous Manual it says, "Elves value their
 > individual freedom highly . . ." This was not the case in Nazi Germany,
 > at least not what I hear from the americans.  It is one of the problems
 > with the alignment in AD&D.  Lawful is considered good and chaotic is
 > viewed as evil.  However, chaotic is described as valuing individual
 > freedom.

     No this is actually an artifact of culture.  If you break the law you
 must be bad but if you adhere to it you are good.  Cultures especially the
 modern ones confuse law/chaos with good/evil.  Modern culture seems to be
 ln/cn   no wonder we're so fu**** up.  >>

Exactly!!!  The spanish conquistatdors REALLY REALLY thought they were helping
the natives, too bad they had NO REALITY CONCEPT.  Also, elves could have
helped the goblins earlier, elven society was never renound for evil.  Living
space is it, put to totally diferrent cultures together and a war will happen.
It is a powder cage.