[ SECRET POST #5446 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5446 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

"An always-evil or always-good species is not, I don't think, more intuitively difficult to comprehend than a race of artificial intelligences"

It is, though. Well - half right, half wrong.

The evil part is easy. They go around instinctively killing and looting and pillaging and enjoying generally being awful to everyone else. Cut and dried, everyone agrees what blatant evil is. And one good deed, even if gigantically Good, doesn't wipe out a history of causing tragedy and death. Easy peasy.

Now always-good... always-good is a minefield like I said. Because good doesn't work like evil does. Good is way more subjective, depending on the reader's perspective and opinions. Imagine the protest that would result if someone made a race, called it Good, and they were anti-choice because they believe life begins at conception. Based on a certain set of beliefs that is subjectively good, and based on another it's evil. It's not nearly as cut and dry. Plus, while one act of good cannot redeem someone's life of evil, one evil deed of enough magnitude can wipe out a legacy of altruism and make that character or race permanently non-Good. So it's a much harder line to walk, and a much harder thing to intuiitively comprehend

However, if we're establishing that alignment can be tied to biological race, then a Good race should be possible. But what would that race be like? No one would agree. So then we're back to looking at the Evil race, and if one side of it can be subjective then the other should be and must be, too, as opposed to an objective fact. This has nothing to do with bringing it into the real world or not, but having internal consistency with its own system. Either both Evil and Good labels are subjective or they're not