Comment on LW Women- Minimizing the Inferential Distance

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:18:41 GMT

a few zero-intelligence creatures (mostly undead) are described as Evil even though they don't have goals, for example

(Complete rationalization mode: ENGAGED.) That's just equivocation. Being evil (in ialdabaoth's sense) in D&D attaches some negative energy to the soul (it's detectable with a Detect Evil spell) which happens to be the same thing that animates undead. So it's not so much that mindless undead are actually evil, so much as that tests and effects for evil also work on undead.

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