User blog comment:Queen Misery/PE Discussion: Sawney Bean/@comment-366087-20191229232842

If I'm following this correctly, the crux is: The standards of Pure Evil is the character cannot have any "love for others" of any kind. Loving someone or thing means they cannot be PURE Evil.

Personally, I've always disagreed with this. *I* always accepted the potential to love at least *one other*, if not a family of others. Indeed, often the loss of The One (or (majority of) Family) serves as the trigger to send the PE into their PE-ness. This should mainly describe HUMANs and Anthros; not applying to Forces of Nature, Concepts, and Personifications.

I guess, in short, I'm suggesting PE classifications should be *after* any such losses which launched them into being PE.

Perhaps also, Alignments should be factored in. In the above example where generations of kin have been begotten, a LAWFUL PE gets a pass because being structured in their personal lives is a part of their LAWFULness, not to mention a part of their grand PE plans. Begetting your own personal army to achieve your goals is rather frugal…