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« on: March 18, 2008, 07:34:39 PM »
The world is FULL of people who rationalize bad actions, using arguments that make no sense, which they ignore the irrationality of, because they're not interested in right or wrong, but in getting what they want. Never underestimate the capacity of human beings to lie to themselves.
"Evil"... it depends on the definition one uses. Usually people don't bother to define the word before using it, making discussions about it meaningless. The concept of "evil" seems to mean people doing "bad" for "bad"s sake, to be "bad". That's Nicholas Blair helping Cassandra with her revenge on Barnabas, when no one but her gets anything out of it. Bad for bad's sake. That's what I say does not happen in the real world.
On "good" vs. "bad" in the general populace... if we divorce it from the idea of "evil" that simplifies it all... I say any scale has a zero point in the middle. Most people hover around that zero point, neither good nor bad. It's only when a challenge comes along and a person has to respond that the needle shifts in one direction or another. That's how I'm coming to see it.
Anyway, on Trask One, the position of DS is clearly that he's a hypocrite out for his own glory... Barnabas treats him that way, and even Nicholas does in 1968.