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Originally Posted by Tobius
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Is it ethical to kill them?
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Is it ethical to kill most of the stuff we kill in EQ? Of course not: ethics says that if some being(s) are hanging out somewhere and they're not hurting anyone, then it's unethical to go hurt them. That description applies to most mobs, even many "evil" ones.
Plus, of the remaining mobs that fight with each other, who's to say who is good or evil? Are the Trolls evil for defending their home? Sure they are primitive cannibals who conquered their home from other primitives, but so were some native peoples; did that make it ok for the Europeans to wipe them out?
Similarly, the Frogloks want to take back their ancestral home using violence ... so basically they're like the Palestinian people: does that make them evil?
Questions of ethics are best left for the real world; in EQ ethics are what you make of them, faction is all that really matters.