Like all mortal (and often immortal) beings, hobbits are capable of evil. As Tolkien says, they just follow the rules because they're just "the rules". can you get any simpler than that?
two of the main motives for evil-doing are a) greed and b) lust. Greed rarely pokes his head in, except among a few (Ted SAndyman comes to mind, good pick) and lust?!? Excuse me! Agree with me or not, sex is one of the very last things on a hobbit's mind. Sam blushes to think of Rosie! (ah, the days of innocence...)
But most hobbits, if you told them to rob a bank or kill someone, they'd be all 'huh? why?' becasue they don't really have any reasons to be evil. THe only hobbit i know who could be called evil were a) the S-Bs, b) Ted S. and c) Gollum. The S-Bs were put out because they wanted Bilbo's money. Ted wanted money to, but personally I think he's just a weirdo. And Gollum killed Deagol for the ring. So all in all, hobbits can be bad. they just don't see why.
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