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From: ee163acp@sdcc13.UUCP (DARIN JOHNSON)
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Subject: Re: Why no renegade demons, etc.?
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Date: Tue, 7-May-85 14:41:03 EDT
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In article <10050@tardis.UUCP>, lucius@tardis.UUCP (Lucius Chiaraviglio) writes:
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> 	Why is it that one always hears of fallen paladins and angels, and
> things once good turned to evil, but never the reverse; and why is it that
> one always hears of things born evil that can never be converted to good or
> made good by good upbringing?  I see no reason why it should not be possible,
> with sufficient work in a good upbringing, to bring up one of the monsters
> listed as evil to be good.  What awesome power is going to keep an orc brought
> up in a paladin's family and treated non-discriminationally from being good,
> by virtue of growing up that way?  For that matter, why do we never hear of
> anything like a few renegade demons who have left the ways of evil, just as
> other powerful forces have fallen from good?
> 
  Ok, with a change-alignment magic item, this is a very reasonable
assumption.  However, this will not occur naturally.  Good characters
do not "turn evil".  It may seem that way, but in my opinion, they just
become neutral.  I hate to imagine my pure-fighter-type suddenly killing
women and children for the whim of it.  He may take over slums and kick
everyone out, but this is not your typical evil.  I would call it greed
or self-centered-ness.  Likewise, I find it hard to imagine a demon
(once an evil person) or orc (inherently evil) ever protesting
South-Africa.  However, red-dragons raised from the egg tend to throw my
theory off, unless you envision them going 'wild' after their mentor
leaves them alone a few months.

Darin Johnson
CD  (chaotic dippy)