Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-27389023-20160613002652/@comment-26459635-20180817174836

Alduin 1stborn of Akatosh wrote: First, you said “Genocide” is not working against existence. Last I checked “Genocide” is the annihilation of a large group of people from existence, yes? The universe has no collective consciousness that we know of but if it did it would have to care about us. We are part of this world and part of the universe. Killing each other will increase the worlds entropy those that were alive are no longer, it is the distraction of a complex and orderly being. The universe does not have infinite life but we can never drive evil to extinction because it is nothing at all. Just as dark is only the lack of light, cold is only the lack of heat, and evil is only the lack of good. death is a natural part of life. all organisms, and even species, eventually die out. it does not matter to the universe whether this occurs "naturally" or by the influence of others. the end result is the same. murder is only bad because we humans have decided it is bad. if the universe has a collective conscience, it has so far shown no particular interest in us. if it did care, it'd stop making humans die in natural disasters. light and heat are measurable things; therefore we can have words for a lack of them. good and evil are not physical things, they are inventions of humans.