Hmm... however can I slip Sauron into a loophole of goodness? I would really like to. This is becoming a type of mental marathon for me: my mind is getting tired of searching for loopholes, but I'm intent on trying to find one. Sadly, I don't think it will happen.
As for orcs, I will voice my opinion (so to speak) although I am sure it will be argued with, which oddly enough is my reason for making it public. Orcs are not evil. Orcs are not bad. To me, it's this nature/nurture thing that my science teacher is always on about. The orcs weren't raised to breed chaos, they were born to. The nature of the orcs in general is to pillage, plunder, kill, etc, but it's not a conscious decision on their part to do so. The orcs were created specifically to be implements of distruction, and the creation of them was done with evil intent, however the orcs themselves are not evil.
Think of what are commonly referred to as 'crack babies'. The mother used crack during the pregnancy causing defects at birth. The child may be born with (as an article we read in health class pointed out) 'no conscience'. Although the child shows no remorse for anything it does wrong, it is not the childs fault- it was born that way.
That is the way the orcs are. They do not choose to act evilly, they have no options, it is part of who they are. However my question seems to be one of a label. The orcs are not evil, but they cannot in good conscience be labeled as 'good'. They fit into few of the definitions of 'good' and they fit into none of the definitions that have been decided as reasonable ones. So what are orcs? Good or evil?
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