Thread:Mesektet/@comment-29414935-20190907103947/@comment-3581997-20190920042110

The only one I would qualify is number 6, the crime lord. The demon is just doing what is in it's nature, with no more malice than a rabid dingo who eats babies. The Granny is trying to stay young, so there is a point to her evil, jerkitude aside, it is not over the top and petty at the cost of others, it is what she need to do to live at the cost of others, still evil and a jerk for the facade, but not irredeemably wicked. Scientists kill babies all the time (Don't look into where lipstick comes from). Like granny, the scientist has a point, a goal and a methodology. I would have to know the context of strangling his daughter too. The alien is a standard imperialist, nothing special. The Silver Schmucker is just powerful, the amount of evil he does is directly proportionate to that power - wiping out a planet to him would be like stepping on an ant-hill for you - something bound to happen eventually just from the weight-class and you are so far removed from each-other, it is a stretch for you to even accept them as lives compared to the level your mind functions on in comparison.

Let's be clear, a lot of deaths does not equal eviler. Example: Hitler killed 5 million people. Stalin however killed 10 million. You know why both are evil but Hitler is considered worse?

Well 1, look at the size of Germany and then the size of Russia. Yeah, you have to work hard to kill five million people in that region vs that many or even twice as many in the northern half of an entire continent,

2 Hitler ruled for 7 years, Stalin Ruled for 25. Again, do you have any idea how much more one was actively killing vs one that was just incidentally killing those who looked at him funny?

3 Hitler was not just killing his enemies, he was killing off cultures he had made-up his mind it was okay to kill, nay his job to kill. Jews and Roma. Neither of which posed any threat to him or had any beef with him, his genocide was based solely on preconceptions, prejudices, weaved into his region of the world he never questioned and just acted on with extreme malice. Stalin murdered LOTs of people, but most of them were political prisoners, people who stood to dispose him, insight the masses against him, make his breakfast the wrong way, etc, petty, evil but still with a practical benefit to him.

As a good measure think, "If my character had an epiphany and all of a sudden realized what they did was wrong, or they were misguided, or their goals were subverted and they wanted to make things right, could they?" I think granny could, I think Silver Schmucker could, I think Dr. Science could. I think Mr. Demon could. I do no think a mobster who offed his own family in an unnecessarily painful way for little reason other than it was convenient for him or ignored the screams of entire crowds could make that up. That is concentrated, non-essential, sadistic evil.