Originally Posted by Ayvah
Originally Posted by Haleseen
Say, the father who is building a house for his family might be building it from sacred wood, or maybe on some elven burial site.

You're changing the scenario. The point is that these situations are unambiguous. It doesn't matter if you're an elf, dwarf, or whatever. A father trying to build a house for his family is unambiguously a good act. Oh, but what if he's a vampire! And his family is brain-eating zombies! Well, yeah, with that knowledge you might be justified when you decide to paint their house red.

But that doesn't mean you're justified killing everyone on sight, little old ladies included, simply based on the logic that they must have done something to deserve it.


*wooosh*

No, a father building a house for his family on an elven burial site is not a good act. That's deliberately desecrating the burial site and the elves probably wouldn't view that as something good. Not everything by default is good, there are no 'good guys'. Everything is subjected to your beliefs, there is no common 'belief' anywhere. What the goblins think is good sure as hell isn't going to be what you think is good. Unambiguous situations don't exist; everything has consequences and will negatively impact something while at the same time positively impacting something else.

Thinking one dimensionally about everything creates some really flat content.