From: Aden Steinke (Aden_Steinke@ms-gw.uow.edu.au)
Date: Fri 15 Apr 1994 - 08:02:44 EEST
Hi All;
sandyp said
> I consider this thread closed unless you can find me an
> example of a large-scale religion that thinks it's good to rob and
> kill on an everyday basis, w/o special permission from God.
There have several religions through history with different 'moral' viewpoints to the christian/jewish/moslem view that dominates Europe/Africa/Nth&Sth America/Australia today.
By the standards of the time the state religions central americans (inc Aztecs, Maya, Toltecs) who practiced mass murder on a daily basis for religious reasons (keep the sun alight etc) were large scale, and the worshippers of Kali in India were likewise numerous untill a century ago. However infanticide has been well documented in many cultures, particularly of baby girls - so the institutionalised killing of living people for cultural as well as religious reasons is known to occur.
Anyway, on Gloranthan morality, it seems clear to me that a Broo that goes around raping and impregnating is not 'evil' he is merely following the dictates of Thed, a biological imperative and the mores of his culture. It may be repugnant to Solars or Sartarites, but would not stop him from being a civil, cultured and polite broo in all other circumstances. A human, aldryami, mostali or troll on the other hand, would probably have to be 'evil' to behave like a broo. Furthermore those human, aldryami, mostali or troll that practice robbing the craddles of baby giants are particularly 'evil' :).
Aden Steinke
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.7 : Fri 10 Oct 2003 - 01:33:40 EEST