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Originally Posted by Raynor
For all intents and purposes, the petty dwarves appeared to the elves as beasts who attacked them. They stopped as soon as they recognized they were sentient beings - that is, after meeting the 'greater' dwarves I am looking foward to anyone putting any argument that someone could have behaved better than the elves.
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That is just silly as you ask people argue something that no one could actually know. . .We can only look at what the elves did and draw conclutions from that, well I guess we could do some speculation, but that is likely to be on very thin grounds. Just like I could not know if France would have done better than the US as the worlds only super-power. . .they would be in a completely different situation and therefore they would probably act differently.
What is interesting is that people seem to classify evil and good when clearly there is no true good beings. . .
You say that the elves only killed the petty-dwarves because they where beasts. .. Does that mean that you think ignorance is a good excuse for doing immoral things? If so I belive that most of the evil deeds of men could be excused.
I actually do not think it matters one bit wether someone could have acted better than the elves, at least not when you talk morality and such. One should be judged by ones own actions and not the ones of others.
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Originally Posted by Raynor
To what cases of intolerance are you reffering?
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If you will not accept "the creatures of Morgoth" as an answer
then what about towards dwarves. . .I do realise that this was mutual and due the whole war buisness.