Being Evil

[Estophelen]

And it's so easy when you're evil...

 

Seriously, there is something intriguing in being malevolent. I'm a decent person in real life but sometimes I wish I wasn't.

[Martin]

What's keeping you from being malevolent, Estophelen? If you don't mind me asking, of course.

[Estophelen]

Well, I live in a certain society and as such I have to follow certain rules and laws. I can't just club an annoying teenager to death or burn down a village because I feel like it. Actually I can, but the consequences would be harsh, so I better not do it. Things could change if I were to became an all-powerfull dictator, but chances are pretty slim.

 

And also overall I respect the value of life and free will and stuff like that. Even though my empathy is pretty low and I'm a cynical person, I'm not intrinsically evil, though sometimes I wish to be.

[BTGBullseye]

Well, I live in a certain society and as such I have to follow certain rules and laws. I can't just club an annoying teenager to death or burn down a village because I feel like it. Actually I can, but the consequences would be harsh, so I better not do it. Things could change if I were to became an all-powerfull dictator, but chances are pretty slim.

 

And also overall I respect the value of life and free will and stuff like that. Even though my empathy is pretty low and I'm a cynical person, I'm not intrinsically evil, though sometimes I wish to be.

Ah, a likened mindset arrives to aid me in my plans for world conquest.

[Doom Shepherd]

So... it has come to this.

 

... and then there were Three.

 

We only need one more Horseman.

 

(I'm Death. In case you thought that point was up for debate.)

[BTGBullseye]

No, I'm death... You're the Conqueror...

[Estophelen]

Oh goody goody, you can fight over who'll be Death, and I'll just take War ^^

[BTGBullseye]

Yup. You can be war.

[Estophelen]

Actually... what's the bloody difference between War and Conqueror? For me thay are pretty similar things.

[BTGBullseye]

Difference is, you get a red horse, Doom gets a white one.

 

The Conqueror makes war with other countries, War is civil war.

[Axeldeath]

Okay, which horsemen of the Apocalypse are we talking about here.

[Estophelen]

Meh... now i can't decide between War and Conqueror.

[Doom Shepherd]

No, I'm death... You're the Conqueror...

 

Dude, you're clearly Famine. You're already starved of Rep.

 

Pestilence retired after the discovery of penicillin, he's been replaced by Pollution.

 

Now if you don't accept this, you can always be:

 

[*]Grievous Bodily Harm,

[*]Cruelty to Animals,

[*]Things Not Working Properly Even After You've Given Them A Good Thumping But Secretly No Alcohol Lager, or

[*]Really Cool People.

 

But I'd advise against it.

[Pinkie Pie]

He's not starved of rep. He's got so much -rep it symbolizes his status as Anti-Life(rep), ie. 'Death'(-rep).

[Doom Shepherd]

... That actually makes sense.

 

Well, in that case, since my avatar is dressed for it, and since there is no such Horseman as "Conqueror" in any version of Revelations I'm aware of, I claim War.

 

OTOH, if we're making up Horsemen, might I suggest "Entropy" Whose passing causes all things to decay at an accelerated rate.

 

*Also, I award no points because no one caught the Gaiman/Pratchett "Good Omens" reference. Seriously, read that book. It's a riot.

[BTGBullseye]

and since there is no such Horseman as "Conqueror" in any version of Revelations I'm aware of

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse

 

The first horseman.

[Jack Noir]

Evil doesn't exist. All people do what they think is right in any given set of circumstances.

 

You think it's right to lock someone in a cell forever for committing certain acts you deem as crimes. A rapist serial killer believes it's right for his victims to suffer as they do or right for his or her self to do these things to people. Hitler thought it was right to slaughter everyone that he believed threatened his people's future.

 

There is no objective truth of what is right or wrong. It's an entirely subjective judgement that can only be made by an individual human mind in its own specific situation, and can never be anything more than an opinion. Your opinion is no more valid than anyone else's opinion.

 

The only people who can ever disagree with that are people who lack the mental capacity to understand what subjectivity is.

[Alyxx Thorne]

The only people who say evil doesn't exist are evil people.

[Jack Noir]

The only people who say evil doesn't exist are evil people.

 

How does understanding the meaning of the word "subjectivity" make someone evil?

[Alyxx Thorne]

So you would say that someone who are utterly defenseless being attacked for no reason and killed is not evil in any way?