Neutral/Evil alignment

[icefractal]

Re: standards of good / evil -

IMO, you don't get a prize for basic "existing in society" levels of behavior. You wouldn't kill someone to take their wallet even if there were no witnesses? You don't go around stealing from orphanages? You've never poisoned an annoying neighbor? Congratulation, you're ... probably neutral. You don't get a "Good" award for any of that, that's just basic "not being evil" stuff!

"Oh, but I was only killing them for practical benefit, not like ... for fun." Yeah, most evil people do things for practical benefit, psychos who want to kill for the hell of it are rare. I think listing RL examples would be against policy, but to keep it general - pretty much every dictator in history has gained practical benefits from their actions. And a standard which says "none of them were evil then" is just stupid.