Quote Originally Posted by Vahnavoi View Post
The chief objection by NigelWalmsley to everything I've said is that somehow, when explicitly using a particular moral philosophy and defining Good and Evil in its terms (keeping in mind plenty of real moral system have no problems using words "good" and "evil"), using the words "Good" a and "Evil" is obscurantism and artificially making the discussion harder.
Because that's literally and exactly the thing it is. Insisting on using a word that does not mean the thing you are talking about instead of a word that does is exactly obscurantism. It's practically definitionally obscurantism.

A lot of people don't like doing real moral philosophy because it quickly takes them to places they don't want to visit.
I get that. There's a real desire to just do hack and slash. And that's fine. But you know what Alignment does in that situation? It raises awkward questions about why you're the literally-and-explicitly Good guys if what you do is practically indistinguishable from violent robbery. If you want to sweep morality under the rug, absolutely the last thing you want to do is throw around Good and Evil (especially in a traditional fantasy setting).