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Death 999
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I am amused that you can quite completely form warring factions out of the 'good' side. I guess you're setting the bar a little low?
Of course, this is because it is silly. Ivan is right. International and inter-species relationships cannot be easily categorized into good and evil, since they tend to be thorough mixtures of the two.
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Volka
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Hey folks,have I remind you that the game was created by hunams?
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EXCUSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEE ME? HUMANS? PRIII AND FF? They are at least SEMI-DEVINE, and even that title doesn't do them justice! 
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Shiver
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What are you guys talking about?! The Dnyarri are evil incarnate! The Ur-Quan, Kohr-Ah, Ilwrath, Druuge, Mycon, Orz, VUX and Thraddash all tend to lean towards evil, but aren't really.
What was I thinking? The Druuge are also evil. The only thing stopping them from being absolutely evil is their general dislike for battle.
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« Last Edit: July 24, 2003, 03:02:14 am by Shiver »
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Death 999
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The Druuge may be evil, but they are evil in a realistic self-interested way rather than the evil-for-evil's sake that tends to run rampant in video games.
That does seem to pop up in the Dnyarri, but it's OK because
A) they are mind-controllers, why would they have any idea of social law?
B) they are not our enemies in the story.
C) as the chmmr say, "If there is such a thing as pure evil, this is it." IF. It is not taken for granted. We may find that SC2 was a few parts of a Rashomon-like pastiche, in which Greenish and the 'Quan and the Dnyarri all have skewed views of the actual events.
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« Last Edit: July 24, 2003, 07:29:44 pm by Death_999 »
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You cant label things "good" and "evil"
Thats the entire point and idea behind Starcontrol 2.
The world is not black and white.
When you start labeling things good and evil, you sound like George W. Bush. The lowest IQ president of the US ever. And thats not an exaggeration. He has an IQ of 89
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Ivan Ivanov
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What are you guys talking about?! The Dnyarri are evil incarnate! The Ur-Quan, Kohr-Ah, Ilwrath, Druuge, Mycon, Orz, VUX and Thraddash all tend to lean towards evil, but aren't really.
The Dnyarii dont have to be evil. Maybe mind cotroling is just their way of surving. Look at them they look like someone crossed a cows brain and a frog, they have no claws teeth or anything, the only way of defending themselves from sabertooth tigers and such was - I guess - mind cotrol
As for the both Ur-Quan races - no they are not evil, they are just... affraid. And because of that fear they kinda lost their contact with reality... but then again, who's to say that for example the Syreen wont evolve into mind-controling enslavers...
As for the Ilwrath - well it may be hard to say that a species that pins down other aliens to altars and eats their internal organs isn't entirely evil, but what's wrong with being religious!
And all the other species... I cant understand why did you call them evil.
The Druuge are just selfish capitalist cowards - nothing evil about that.
The Mycons are... hell I never could understand why anyone would call them evil they didn't do anything wrong. The destruction of Syra was just a classic of Mother Nature In Action: two species fighting for survival - both needed the planet as a place to live, the strongest one took it. Well yeah they're are both sentient so technicaly they could get along but every other race says that Mycons are like stuck in the 60'.
The Kohr-Ah lost their contact with reality because they went to the other room for a second and they just cant hear it. But the Mycons... the Mycons they pluged their ears and started screaming "LALALALAALALA I CANT HEAR YOU!!!!" But it definitely doesn't mean they're evil
Orz - We know nothing about them. While it seems that they may pose a threat to us/the galaxy/the universe in some time it does not mean that they are evil.
The Vux are just xenophobes and the Thraddash like to start fights. It's not nice but it is far from being Eeeeevil! Like I said Eeeevil does not exist. It's just a simplification made up by the hunams. The hunams obsereved their world and saw a few nice things and some bad things, they added up all the nice thigs and called it Good, and added up all the bad things and called it Eeeeeevil. Of course the one who desided what is nice and what is not was a hunam.
Do you think it would be nice to get your head cut off by a butcher?
Do you eat hamburgers?
Do you get the point?
It's all relative.
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Kohr-Ah_Primat
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Plus, in order to turn this into a black and white state of affairs, you need to actually define evil. What is it by your definition? The state of being under which one commits acts that inconveniences others? That harms others? What do you define as that fine line between 'okay' and 'not okay'? Killing? Enslaving? Torturing? Manipulating others for personal gain?
In each of those cases 'evil' is completely different.
The Kohr-Ah don't believe in torture, don't believe in manipulating others, don't believe in humiliating other races nor do they act out of profit at the expense of others. Yet most would define them as evil.
The Syreen however do enslave others, do manipulate others for personal gain, and do kill the Mycons in the name of vengeance. However, most people would define them as 'good' as well as perfectly justified.
So, yes. You can't really define any race as evil in terms of black and white, because none of them really fit the paradigm. Though I have to agree with Shiver; if any race comes close to completely 'evil', in my opinion it would have to be the Druuge and the Dnyarri.
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We are the Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah.
Our nature, the fulfillment of our fate requires your destruction.
You are filth. It is now your time to be cleansed.
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Lukipela
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And feeding the debate, I'll quote/misquote a book by Terry Pratchett.
There is a debate between a priset of the tolerant Omnian faith and an old witch. The priest holds that it is not a question of black and white anymore, there are just so many shades of grey.
To which the witch replies : No there aint. there's just white that has gotten grubby. And it all begins with thinking of people as things."
"Surely there it is more complicated than that. There are many crimes worse than thinking that way."
"Yes, but they all begin when you start thinking of people as things"
Now what has this got to do with the debate? Simply that when you debate good'n evil, you should always keep in mind that if you believe in the concept of good or evil, shades of grey aren't really an option. There's good, and there's bad. Period. Otherwise you may as well argue, that from the point of the torturer, torture is a just thing.
And if you don't believe in good and evil, merley in actions and reactions, then all of this is moot. In that case, all of these things are simply consequences of choices made long ago. As to the intentions of those who made the choices, well they are moot as well.
Just to give you a starting point Primat, "People as things". That fits both the Dnyarri and the Druuge neatly into the fold, and several other races/members of races as well.
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