His Divine Shadow
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Originally posted by trillian:
[b]It was the uncleansed human brain that screwed up in IWHS.[/b]
That’s what I’ve been saying. A truly evil person is someone who knows they’re doing wrong, yet does it anyway (like Mantrid and Prince). His Shadow saw himself as just carrying out justice.
You can really feel for him in [i]Mantrid[/i]. The humans destroyed his home, his people, and everything he heald dear. To him, they were an evil race. It’s like the Klingons, or the Ice Warriors. All you see of them (at first) are hostile warriors, but they have a civilization composed largely of good non-violent people. Still, when you saw the Klingons in the original [i]Star Trek[/i] you didn’t imagine Worf or Torres.
“I’ve never trusted a Klingon, and I never will. I cannot forgive them for the death of my son”
-Captain Kirk, [i]Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country[/i]
In that movie the Klingons turn out to be predominantly good, but Kirk hates them because the ones he was exposed to before were evil. His Shadow thought the same way about humans. They killed his people, they should die. Never mind the ones who did kill his people were dead and had different value systems from most of the humans in the Light Zone.
Besides, he didn’t directly kill humans (for the most part), he exploited the gullibility and their hatred that was already there to make humans kill humans. It could be reasoned that if they’re stupid enough to follow him, they deserve to die.
Prince, on the other hand, is pure evil. There’s no humanity, no justice. He tries to break the rules of the Universe to better suit himself. He sends good people to Fire out of spite, and sends bad people to Water out of friendship. And he knows what he’s doing is wrong. That’s a truly evil person.
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Lee P. Sherman, code name DalekTek790
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