You do realize the Realms is not Earth, right? It's a fictional fantasy game setting, and can therefore have whatever lore its creators attribute to it.
“Anything goes” does not apply if an idea leads to contradictions.
You can say “I don’t care, this is how things are” – there is no rule that our fictional worlds have to make sense – but then you have to live with the fact that your world, in fact, does not make sense.
--- TLDR: A statement that all members of a group are necessarily evil without exception makes – even by worldbuilder fiat – no sense as long as they are psychologically human enough to make it possible to have them as protagonists in a class of stories which are, by observation, perfectly plausible and not altogether rare in fantasy worlds like the Forgotten Realms (see below). Since almost all races and peoples are psychologically human enough for that, as a rule it makes no sense to make the aforementioned statement about any group. ---
That world may not make sense to you, but it makes *perfect* sense to me. That's the whole point of having fictional worlds (in the plural), so different people will find different settings to their liking. I happen to love the FR precisely because of how it is set up and for its lore going back decades. I don't care for the other D&D settings (Grayhawk is sort of okay). And I utterly dislike Larian's Rivellon setting. But I'm not going to argue that Larian needs to throw out everything they've established in their setting because I don't like/approve of it. That would be just plain silly.
Also, I specifically said "with exceptions" in talking about "evil" races in the FR.
Anyway, I'm done with this as it is not my desire or intent to derail the thread.
