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Most likely, yes. Plus their reasons for doing bad things lack deeper inferior motives. ironclad Send a noteboard - 18/03/2010 10:09:25 PM
When does a person become evil?

Oy, this is getting really philosophical :P

I'd even go so far and say: Only when you mean harm to pretty much every person that you don't have a need for (or care for), you're evil. Like the classic action flick villain.

That's why it's hard to find a real human being I'd call evil. Bin Laden may try to kill every US American he encounters, but could be a loving father, I dunno. He'd still come closest, I guess.
A serial killer too. Then again, he could be a nice person to everyone but blonde hookers, who knows? Things aren't as black and white in the real world.

Martin's books are realistic enough to have good characters with dark sides and vice versa. But Cersei comes closest to being evil. She cares for her kids too, but means harm to pretty much everyone standing in her way to power.
*MySmiley*

You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.
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Exactly. - 18/03/2010 09:07:56 PM 833 Views
I have never heard anyone defend Cersei. - 18/03/2010 07:04:33 PM 835 Views
Confusing likability with goodness - 18/03/2010 08:59:40 PM 829 Views
Arya may not be "good"... - 18/03/2010 09:15:46 PM 880 Views
Do you think a child can be evil? *NM* - 18/03/2010 09:18:06 PM 352 Views
We sometimes hear about kids doing horrible things - 18/03/2010 09:41:30 PM 711 Views
Is that because they may not understand the consequences of their actions? - 18/03/2010 09:45:33 PM 786 Views
Most likely, yes. Plus their reasons for doing bad things lack deeper inferior motives. - 18/03/2010 10:09:25 PM 817 Views
Arya is old enough to understand cause and effect... - 18/03/2010 11:04:31 PM 915 Views
Soldiers do the same thing. - 19/03/2010 03:23:35 AM 748 Views
Just what I was about to say, yeah *NM* - 19/03/2010 07:55:47 AM 322 Views
Arya is legitimately the most evil... - 18/03/2010 09:45:04 PM 1096 Views
No, she's not - 18/03/2010 11:45:23 PM 768 Views
Cersei doesn't have true justification - 18/03/2010 11:47:44 PM 889 Views
what makes ambition better? - 19/03/2010 03:30:04 AM 739 Views
*nods* - 19/03/2010 07:58:31 AM 860 Views
Re: Arya is legitimately the most evil... - 19/03/2010 10:50:56 PM 755 Views
I was looking forward to his response as well. - 19/03/2010 11:13:35 PM 863 Views
Nope - 20/03/2010 10:23:19 PM 923 Views
Evil is such a limiting term to use. - 20/03/2010 12:18:24 PM 728 Views
Try reading the books - 20/03/2010 10:50:01 PM 938 Views
just out of curiousity - 21/03/2010 03:01:02 AM 823 Views
Sort of. - 22/03/2010 11:37:04 PM 731 Views
I've read them a few times. - 21/03/2010 01:47:52 PM 823 Views
Just a "few" times? - 21/03/2010 06:07:14 PM 874 Views
Only three times. - 21/03/2010 11:20:12 PM 781 Views
Who is Jon Connington? - 22/03/2010 01:30:44 AM 918 Views
people seem to be forgetting - 21/03/2010 09:11:04 PM 886 Views
Some of that is BS... - 22/03/2010 04:18:06 AM 806 Views
Thank you. - 23/03/2010 01:59:38 AM 812 Views
*NM* - 23/03/2010 03:58:24 AM 274 Views
ROFLMAO. Most people complain that my values are medieval & out of touch with the modern world! - 23/03/2010 01:54:58 AM 1151 Views
It really shocks that I'm going to say this. - 23/03/2010 03:23:28 AM 739 Views
To clarify, "evil" means VERY, VERY BAD. - 23/03/2010 01:12:39 AM 983 Views
your problem is you seem equate legality with morality - 24/03/2010 04:07:42 AM 728 Views
I was responding to someone ELSE making that error - 24/03/2010 03:13:36 PM 1010 Views

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