: Actually, GURPS does suggest quite strongly that the
: Ghols and Mauls aren't actually evil (however we may
: define that term), but are instead savage,
: misunderstood creatures who can't find allies anywhere
: but in the Dark.
And for good reason. But let's look: the ghols have been hindering the growth of the Dwarves just as the Dwarves have been hindering the Ghols' way of life. So they both are justified... until they decided to take sides. The ghols chose to take the side of the Darkness (Balor, Soulblighter, etc.) which then objectively makes them wrong, since their side had only destructive missions.
: As for the idea that good can be defined as the
: destruction of evil, that's rather a dangerous view to
: take, overall. Hitler thought the Jews and Communists
: were evil, and we all know how that ended up, don't
: we?
You're kind of employing a strawman's argument. Hitler was wrong. His was not an objective perspective. He grew up thinking that the Jew was a big culture of stealers and the Communists were also things to be exterminated. Historians and even you and I can look back and see who was right and who was wrong. Hitler was incorrect in his belief that the Jews and Communists were all evil. We are correct in our belief that he was evil. I'm not saying all Jews and Communists are saints. But Hitler didn't care. He just removed all of them, regardless if they were babies, women, or working family men.
I'm talking about objective analyses of good and evil. From what we know of the Myth storyline, we can objectively and correctly state that the Dark is evil, and all their allies and agents, from Thrall to ghols to the Leveler, are wrong in their assault.
When I said "you have every right to blast them" I wanted to convey the idea that you were justified to use violence to defend yourselves from them, or even attack them, since they started the whole mess, what with Balor razing your golden city and all.
-Welly
