Tolkien and the Monsters

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Response time!

To The Saucepan Man-- But of course! That's quite excusable.

To Osse-- Oh, you devil's-advocate-playing-Maia-spirit, you! Let me reread your tongue-twisting response and see what I get out of it... Okay. I have come up with some coherent thoughts! So, what I personally believe is that we have choices, and that no one is born "malevolant." It's the experiences we have which shape us, and after a while there is a point of no return which is Evil. When someone becomes so apathetic that they figure they've got nothing to lose and everything to gain by destruction, then malevolance changes to evil. So I'm gonna go with the "Tabula rasa" or "clean slate" theory and say that at birth, evil and good do not exist. They're just abstract concepts anyway... ::clutches skull at thought overload::

To Mithalwen-- I most certainly agree with you on this:

There may be a predispositon but wheter it is developed would depend on environment.

Hooray for people actually listening to my ramblings!