"Probably not, now that I think about it, it's a conscious choice not a - if you aren't sentient, if you can't comprehend that there is even a choice to make between good and evil then you don't fall under the category of evil. It can do evil like that, certainly, but at a basic level the creature is innocent because it doesn't understand what it's doing. It's entirely possible that it could be helped, taught to do something that isn't evil, because it can't make the choice itself. So, the Monster Manual's racist in that sense, too."
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Date: 2014-05-06 06:03 am (UTC)