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Originally Posted by davem
So the reader is reading about an 'alien' world in which the 'natural morality' which holds in our world does not hold in that world. The inhabitants of M-e, it seems, do not have such a 'natural morality' - which seems to mean that when they make choices in conformity with our 'natural morality' they are making an unnatural choice. So one could argue that such choices are more difficult for them than they would be for us.
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The question comes that there were at most two humans who experienced 'natural morality', and they live no more, physically. An argument could also be made that even if they experienced it, they didn't act on it - since they became moral (i.e. able to chose right from evil) only after their Fall, a Fall which corrupts them at least morally (as far as I understand Christianity). In any case, no human currently (or ever) knows natural morality. The same as in Middle Earth. Therefore, I believe that comparing both worlds post-Fall is possible and valid.
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Originally Posted by Lal
Even if there are no 'bad guys', then there at least 'bad things' to be dealt with.
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You may be right, but I doubt that an evil situations or evil in non-sentient forms could be somehow admired or desired.
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Originally Posted by hewhoarisesinmight
darkness itself is worshipful.
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What do you mean? I doubt you got the right forum
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