I have. It doesn’t change the fact that humanity is inherently evil and for one’s greater happiness it’s best to keep them at arm’s length. I never trust my friends that much and I am never expected to. 🤷

The fact that you reacted so strongly to me pointing out facts says you’re upset at even the idea that someone would openly reject others.

If you were really so righteous, you wouldn’t have said a thing.

Having used to be that bum, yes, I can say emphatically what they’re doing is evil by conventional standards. I agree wholeheartedly with what they do, but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s evil and by that game’s standards they should die.

Items like that go by the standards established in the game and that means that homeless dude is gonna die. Conventional western morals dictate he be jailed, at least, and most Americans do want people like that exterminated because they dehumanize the homeless. Even restorative justice types don’t actually view or treat homeless people like humans let alone peers. Homeless populations are pretty universally reviled, and as good and evil always boil down to our feelings and popularity contests, that’s what makes them evil in the eyes of others.

I am not agreeing with the notion, just saying what it is. Personally I think humanity is inherently evil so all humans should die from such an item or a spell. But no one would take my opinion into account so this morality-is-relative crap people are pulling to dispute the veracity of the sword doesn’t hold water either.

Meh. I live alone and can tell you from a biological standpoint it’s not healthy. People have to be around others because we are hardwired for it. Loneliness is more destructive than smoking a pack of cigarettes a day, and that’s a hardwired consequence you can’t get around with your worldview and moral outlook. Those who live alone live shorter lives on average.

Humans are inherently evil and selfish and will take whatever they can to meet their needs, many of which involve the satisfaction of dominating others.

Thefts among friends and loved ones are considered normal because everyone steals from each other and no one wants to be held accountable for their actions, for example.

Just more base animal shit from humanity

Debatable. I don’t really think the thing is about what people deserve. A sword like that could be used for all kinds of different things, not just some moral crusade.

Hell, I’d use it to detect so-called good people without the stabbing and avoid them. The worst kind of people are good ones. Goodness itself is a kind of evil.

People are quibbling over what is good and evil but no one considers how useful a sword like that would be. D&D already has a hard-coded alignment system with predictable behaviors associated with each alignment so implying good and evil are subjective is meaningless.

Then again, morality itself is pretty meaningless so 🤷

See, here’s my problem with that: humanity is inherently evil so everyone would be killed by such a thing.

I don’t think a cow can be good or evil.

a hateful bitter man who antagonizes everyone but obeys the law

As one of those hateful bitter people in the eyes of others who still is lawful, I emphatically tell you that we are evil and absolutely would and should be killed by Holy Word and other such spells.

a teenager

Wait, what?

Actually everyone on your list should be killed by that spell, even the teenager though I vehemently disagree with that.

Like you can sit there and quibble about what is actually evil or not but this is magic, and what matters is what the majority of people consider evil, and they all hit the mark. Most adults are ageist bigots who’d wipe out all teenagers on a dime if they could, for example, even though that’s pretty evil.

Good and evil are honestly pretty meaningless.

It also defeats the point of the exercise. The paladin is nolonger responsible for the murder of those innocents because he was lied to about the true nature of the sword and would have no way to find out the truth without killing an innocent person.

So it’s not the paladin doing the killings, it’s the DM.

As if you aren’t evil by lying to the player.

And as if they won’t successfully dispute it.

Yours will likely last a long longer and be much easier to repair though.

Sad but true

It went back to 0 so I think it was just a glitch. Weird that it happened though.

How the hell did you get -1 downvotes OP?

See, shit like this is why I pirate crap. Why in the world people use almost any streaming service is just beyond me.

The only good ones are the independent services run by actual Youtubers like Nebula and the like. At least those ones help contribute directly to content creators.

Who is dumb enough to just allow themselves to be manipulated, abused and taken for a ride in such a way?

🤔 And no one thought to make a federated Amazon alternative yet.

What the hell would stop the government from just putting CSAM onto the phones of political rivals and upstarts to get them jailed without question?

And child molesters will run away scot-free on account of all this.

Isn’t there anyone who will stop the dirty child molesters without wanting power in return? Anyone?

Anyone who will stop the government?

Anybody?

You all need to stop with the AI generated bullshit and just go get a picture on Google Images or something.

Look at that kid’s ear. And the bottom of his face with the jowls of a 50-year-old man. That is clearly AI generated.

EDIT: And the whole-ass top of his head is missing. And that car is obviously fake

You’re allowed to like whatever you want to like. 🤷

They mean the willingness to work.

And that fucking clown is obviously a racist, just ignore him.