Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-92.251.228.132-20141108020915/@comment-27178151-20151112221513

LDuka wrote: ^ Let's go deeper into this. This has been a topic of great dicussion between philosophers over the history . Platinum's view on this was first theorized by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Others, like T.Hobbes, thought exactly the opposite.

Depending on how you look at it you may get different conclusions. Applying those to the DB lead us to different results for the OP's question.

Which is sort of where I'm at with the DB. I do believe they are ultimately more evil than good, but I harbor no illusions about that. I think that way because a myriad of factors have influenced my choices and my worldview.

Likely we could say the same even of Astrid, despite the apparent disdain many have for her. As you pointed out, she favors a familial bond and actions that benefit that family over the rigid structure of doing something within a civil law (of which she may or may not have agreed to be a part. That's the thing about the laws. A lot are good, some are bad, but rarely is there anything more than a tacit agreement to live by them simply because we want to live in the geographical location in which they are enforced.)

In this way I definitely at least respect her, even if I don't agree with her in all respects. As someone who is pretty fairly "do as you do as long as you do no harm and leave everyone else alone", i get why she'd prefer to be rid of the constraints of what others say is good for her.

Course, she does plenty of harm, and in this way must be dealt with differently. But still.

I enjoy Rousseau, Sarte and Kant, oddly, all of whom had some varying ideas and theories regarding this stuff. And some that changed radically as they aged.