Role

Chapter 6

... "My wish was to slay criminals.
... They say, be careful what you wish for."

A saying goes, people's nature is mostly evil, and goodness is only caused
by intentional activity. In a world where everyone is free to act on their
base impulses - the world envisioned by Outlanders and Scarabites - this
translates to evil in dominance, simply because most people aren't virtuous,
and those who are, are vulnerable.

Some people (Fortress) believe it is possible to exterminate evil. Wrong,
unless you exterminate all humans, arials and felar (who will never be pure
inherently as elves or storm giants are, and thus some of them will always
turn to evil). Besides, greatest evil is often committed by people without
red auras (Nexuns and Battleragers being obvious examples).

Now, in a world where people are restrained by laws - the world envisioned
by Tribunal - this translates to evil being protected, and again good people
are disadvantaged because rules can always be bent.

But it is a *smaller* disadvantage.

Not very optimistic, but such is the way Laeden came to think. He killed
a good man recently. In a way, things will never be the same.