Board Thread:Clean up Concerns/@comment-2059440-20160822192203/@comment-2059440-20160823161116

Mesektet wrote: Oh certainly not. One of the things we need to find a way to enforce, is that a jerk is not automatically an antagonist. I was just concerned about the blanket implantation of "It's okay cause my culture/ time-period says so."

In the case of the Slaver example it is a matter of narrative, he has no name or even personality, he is just Egyptian #1835 who was doing his job keeping the workforce in-line. There is no pre-conceived malice or forethought of cruelty. He isn't even hurting a main character, his role in the Torah is setting Moses up for a moment of truth in snapping at his society.

we may change to avoid Moral Absolutism but by no means would I be wanting us to go as far as saying extremist behavior was ever acceptable (enslavement, excessive physical abuse/torture and fantacism) - these things were always immoral, I feel that no matter the time-period however the torturous terrorists and madmen were always a criminal minority, they held great power but the masses as a whole did not truly engage in the same level of depravity (many of the masses were kept deliberately ignorant and/or afraid - because rebellion was a constant fear by ancient despots (just as it is today) ).