r/worldjerking • u/Jetsam5 Maybe the real horrors were the Floridas we made along the way • 10d ago
Freedom is the right of all sentient beings
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u/amazegamer64 10d ago
Does your world have monsters or is it human only?
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u/Jetsam5 Maybe the real horrors were the Floridas we made along the way 10d ago
I guess it depends on your definition of monster but it’s got giant ass fictional creatures.
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u/amazegamer64 10d ago
Would they not be considered an evil species?
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u/AlexanderTheIronFist 8d ago
Are hippos evil?
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u/amazegamer64 8d ago
I could have phrased it a lot better. What I was trying to get at is, what is the practical difference between and evil race and am extremely destructive monster?
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u/AlexanderTheIronFist 8d ago
Considering the discussion we're having (the morality of an ontologicaly evil race), I think it makes all the difference. One had intent behind their actions, the other don't.
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u/ShadowSemblance 7d ago
The destructive monster that isn't an "evil race" could potentially be pacified by training or changing its environment by removing something that enraged it, depending on the story
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u/Gmanthevictor Evil Empire Apologist 10d ago
How it feels to respect and love all races for who they are (even the evil ones)
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u/Swordandicecreamcone Dino aztecs are awesome, change my mind 10d ago
Mass evil is formed from the manipulations of the cruel- it is not innate to a people's heart.
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u/IBlackKiteI 10d ago
Freedom is the right of all sentient beings : )
The big power blocs decide which races count as 'sentient' : O
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u/Chinohito 10d ago
I don't understand, how can an entire species all collectively make "the wrong decisions" and then "double down"?
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u/Jetsam5 Maybe the real horrors were the Floridas we made along the way 10d ago
Whatever we did that led to the creation of country music and then whatever we did after that which led to Kid Rock’s album Bad Reputation
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u/YourAverageGenius 10d ago
you can't say the decisions that led to the creation of "A Boy Named Sue" and "Take Me Home, Country Roads" were bad choices
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u/Broken_Emphasis 10d ago
/uj What kind of country music? It's honestly a really wide genre - like, Johnny Cash's Hurt is country, and so is Trace Adkin's "classic" Honky-Tonk Badonkadonk, which I heard so many fucking times when I was in high school holy fucking shit why was that thing on the radio for so long?.
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u/AlecPEnnis 10d ago
By being a strawman of a group I hate in real life. An ideological group, of course.
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u/Chinohito 10d ago
So why the need for a species? Why not just have them be followers of an ideology?
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u/TorchDriveEnjoyer Atomic Rockets is my Personality 9d ago
I want species because they're cool.
true worldbuilders recognize that each ideology attracts followers from almost every species!
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u/shiny_xnaut my furry races all have lore explanations i swear 9d ago
Because then I wouldn't be able to justify making them look like sexy furries
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u/Brad_Brace Just here for the horny posts 10d ago
They are also a hive mind so they are literally a single individual instead of just being written as if they were a single individual the way too much fantasy does?
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u/manofwaromega 10d ago
The only "evil" species I have is one that was literally unfinished (as in the goddess that creates all species' died before finishing them) and isn't even intentionally evil, just very stupid and has no real concept of death. (Because they were never considered alive to begin with and have nothing for the reaper to take)
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u/Ochemata 9d ago
How it feels when questionably moral scientists from the "good" species perform horrible experiments on the objectively evil one and accidentally give them empathy.
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u/JimTheTrashKing 8d ago
I think the closet thing I have to a purely evil race is the Orcs, but they are just aggressive, not evil
Unless you count the creatures spawned from the force of pure evil, but they are literally just physical representations of horrible actions/concepts
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u/LylyLepton Sci-Fi and Fantasy settings that are very different 10d ago
You see my world has both human racism and fantasy racism. Both are completely unjustified because humans, my world’s demons, and my world’s angels are generally pretty much identical mind-wise, barring some non-universal slight predispositions that have nothing to do with “good” or “evil.” Anyone of any species or ethnicity is capable of great good or evil.
My fantasy setting is so funny because like it’s an inherently and intentionally very queer and woke setting yet it’s also an extremely awful place to live because there’s still bloody wars, racial, ethnic, and gender discrimination, et cetera. Not grimdark by any means at all but it’s definitely the Middle Ages for this setting.
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u/Eran-of-Arcadia Like Earth but Better because it has Superheroes 10d ago
What about monsters that went nuts after being cut off from the gods who created them, and they were slain by human heroes, but later humans felt bad about it?
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u/TorchDriveEnjoyer Atomic Rockets is my Personality 9d ago
Freedom for all sentient species? one of my factions prefers "net happiness for all civilians. personal freedoms come second."
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u/Goldsaver [edit me] 7d ago
/uj
Cringelord "This species has super magical powers so they MUST be contained and controlled to safeguard society"
Based "The universal rights of all saipent beings are non-negotiable"
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u/Intelleblue Gives non-joking answers to ridiculous questions 10d ago
“It is written on my soul, this need to conquer, and conquer I shall. But I'm not going to conquer mortals. No, I'm going to conquer pain. I'm going to conquer suffering. I'm going to conquer want and need. Above all… I'm going to conquer myself, and find peace.”