Talk:Gods/@comment-4407082-20141025223309/@comment-25035274-20141027152253

" It's all based on perspective."

Innacurate, unless one happens to be suffering from psychopathy or sociopathy, in which case one's moral compase is either dangerously skewed or completely missing. Such persons are, in point of fact, a danger to themselves and to society as a whole.

There are, in fact, things that 'all' societies would consider Absolute Evils. For instance, murder simply for the sake of murder? You'd be hard pressed to find a society willing to accept that. Even worshippers of Kali would balk at that, their belief being that the blood they shed is sacred, and prevents Kali from causing much greater destruction. Similarly, rape in the real-world, non-fetish sense. Again, evil. You will not find a person with a properly functioning moral compass, in ANY society, who would say rape (in the real-world sense) is fitting and proper.

If one does not kill, yet destroys a major infrastructure point not for any political reason or out of necessity, but simply because they want to? Evil.

To take it a step further: Killing a child simply because you want to? That would be firmly categorized as evil.

You will note that none of these things fall within a moral grey area. At no point is "for t3h lulz" an ethically acceptable reason within ANY functioning society. These things are categorically, and unequivocally, Absolute Evils.

The Order is not, in and of itself, an Absolute Evil. They are operating under the belief that what they are doing is ultimately to protect mankind.

The Demon Lord is not an Absolute Evil. She operates under the belief that what she does will ultimately protect everyone.

However, we have no idea about the Chief God and/or the Pantheon allied with her. We do not know their motivations. We do not know 'why', exactly, they created the system to work as it did before the current Demon Lord. To be quite frank, we do not even know that they did create the system. They may have simply stumbled upon it.

Whether they are evil or morally grey cannot be determined until such time as we know the why. It's possible they had a very good reason. Maybe it was to prevent what they thought would be an even greater catastrophe. Or maybe they have to feed on the death and destruction simply to survive. But it's also possible they simply do it for the lulz. If the former, they'd clearly be in the grey zone most of us inhabit, though still possibly worthy of opposition. But if they're just doing it because they enjoy making mortals dance? That is purely, and unabashedly, an Absolute Evil.