: I'm not committed to a definition of 'justification,' so
: I'll go with whatever you want to pack into it. I
: submit you can STILL be justified (i.e., have reasons
: and be not harmful to the overall whole) and be evil.
I don't see how you can be evil and nonharmful to the overall whole.
: As I played the Myth games, I wasn't thinking--boy, the
: Dark is evil because they're acting without reason!
: And they're harming the overall whole! And they're not
: evil simply because they oppose me. They're evil
: because they make evil choices and act in evil ways.
Destroying everything and everyone in their path is almost always considered evil.
: Evilness is not a matter of (simply) lacking
: justification. So it doesn't get the Dark off the hook
: for being evil to load them up with some kind of
: justification. It's just not the right key for the
: lock.
It's not a key for any lock. They would be evil based on their actions no matter what their intentions.
: Now, I could be wrong about the Dark being evil, but it
: wouldn't be from discovering they were actually
: justified that I would come to that conclusion.
I'm going to ignore the philosophic arguements of Forrest's myth, because (no insult I hope) its not true. It's a beautiful idea in theory, but I'm going by Bungie first.
Methinks we should
A) Get back to the One Dream and Ultimate Truth question
B) Rename the Subject
C) Ignore this.
Seraph
