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Poll
Question: To be born good? Or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?
Option 1: To be born good votes: 1
Option 2: To overcome your evil nature through great effort votes: 3
Title: PotD: What is better?
Post by: Kalahari Inkantation on August 03, 2019, 06:28:01 AM
befuddlement
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Post by: TooB on August 03, 2019, 10:42:25 AM
Hi Tec!
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Post by: Nyerp on August 03, 2019, 03:09:02 PM
 Video Games - Discuss video games, their respective consoles, and their characters. 
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Post by: C.Mongler on August 04, 2019, 10:43:11 AM
To take a really big shit
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Post by: Kalahari Inkantation on August 04, 2019, 10:48:09 AM
You guys.

(https://i.imgur.com/lQ5SGeE.png)

akudood;
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Post by: Nyerp on August 04, 2019, 10:53:30 AM
yikes i better turn in my gamer card oh wait it's skyrim who cares LOL
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Post by: Thyme on August 04, 2019, 11:01:46 AM
yeah tec even i don't care about skyrim anymore smh
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Post by: Kalahari Inkantation on August 04, 2019, 11:32:22 AM
You don't have to care or even know about Skyrim at all to have an opinion on such a general question. hocuspocus;
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Post by: ClassicTyler on August 04, 2019, 11:59:38 AM
I think it depends. We need both figures for the sake of an interesting story.
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Post by: C.Mongler on August 05, 2019, 06:50:27 AM
Quote from: Magyarorszag on August 04, 2019, 10:48:09 AMYou guys.

(https://i.imgur.com/lQ5SGeE.png)

akudood;
Quote from: C.Mongler on August 04, 2019, 10:43:11 AMTo take a really big shit
Title: Re: PotD: What is better?
Post by: YPrrrr on August 05, 2019, 07:33:15 AM
Idk overcoming it is more impressive ig
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Post by: Samus Aran on August 05, 2019, 11:56:52 AM
skyrim?

awww man
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Post by: Kalahari Inkantation on August 06, 2019, 10:22:15 PM
hint: it depends on the definition of the word "better" cnotedood;

Does "better" mean "more pragmatic" or "more functionally useful"? Or maybe "more virtuous"? O_0
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Post by: YPrrrr on August 07, 2019, 04:30:01 AM
It's better to be born good in that it is easier to do the right thing and is therefore less challenging

It's better to have overcome an evil nature because it requires great effort and is therefore more impressive

I guess it depends on how much you enjoy a challenge lol
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Post by: darksouls on August 07, 2019, 03:30:54 PM
You can't be born good.
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Post by: C.Mongler on August 07, 2019, 06:37:46 PM
Quote from: darksouls on August 07, 2019, 03:30:54 PMYou can't be born
ftfy
Title: Re: PotD: What is better?
Post by: Kalahari Inkantation on August 09, 2019, 11:41:06 AM
Quote from: YPrrrr on August 07, 2019, 04:30:01 AMIt's better to be born good in that it is easier to do the right thing and is therefore less challenging

It's better to have overcome an evil nature because it requires great effort and is therefore more impressive

I guess it depends on how much you enjoy a challenge lol

and we all certainly enjoy a good redemption story, "most improved" is a common elementary classroom award and everyone loves real-life villains turned heroes (eg. convict opens bakery or smth lol)

But another important factor to consider is: "What is better" for whom? befuddlement

if you had been born evil but had the strength and virtue and made the "great effort" necessary to eventually overcome it, that's legit laudable

But it still sucks arse for your victims for the entire period during which you had been evil. goowan

becoming good eventually is an invaluable improvement in character, but it doesn't necessarily undo the damage that had already been done up to that point

"To overcome your evil nature through great effort" is always the overwhelmingly popular choice for this question because people like paarthuurnaaxxx (i mean no doubt he great), but the player is extremely biased because we only ever encounter him after he's already overcome his evil nature lol

but we know factually that he'd been another alduin before that

How do we know that Stalin didn't genuinely overcome his evil nature on his death bed, a week before perishing, but by now far too infirm to put that change of nature into practice? And what would it mean if he did? Reichdood;