#with vilgefortz and the wallcreeper and also emhyr (didnt mention his ass at first but throw him in too) they’re more just power hungry | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

hanzajesthanza · 7 months ago

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when sapkowski is all “i don’t believe in absolute evil” like he didn’t write like vilgefortz and leo bonhart and birkart grellenort likeeee okkkk but those guys were preeeetty evil though

#likeeee it kind of seems to me that… they got pretty close. to absolute evil. you know #like uhhh… nilfgaardian invasion detailed in baptism of fire anyone #though ok ok his point was that there is no absolute evil as in being motivated by evil itself #that evil always has its own motivations and those motivations can be evil but it’s not evil for the sake of being evil #HOWEVER that being said i feel like bonhart really was just evil for the sake of being evil #you could say for the sake of sadism or for greed (him being the anti-geralt lol and actually being a stereotyped idea of witcher ngl)#buuuut i feel like sadism and greed are just niche evils themselves #with vilgefortz and the wallcreeper and also emhyr (didnt mention his ass at first but throw him in too) they’re more just power hungry #and wanting revenge on those that wronged them (interesting because isn’t this also what our protags want—minus the power)#anyways reviewing these interviews again has me 😂😳😌 but also 🤨#sometimes i feel like (with this discussion on evil) the economics background really shines through LMAO #like well sometimes i feel like there really is evil that is evil evil. sometimes people are just hateful and targeting with their hate #and you know this yourself bc you wrote it wtf #like you’re not gonna call the human peasants who slaughtered the dwarves and elves in rivia evil? i would call that absolute evil #maybe not their entire lives but in that instance true evil manifested #i feel like the definition of evil im getting at is hate and bloodthirst #which yeah sometimes that exists for no reason whatsoever #i mean it can be based out of economic ‘reasoning’ (manipulated into propaganda) to scapegoat a population and target of hate #but it quickly excels past any reason whatsoever. yeahh i dont think evil always has a motivation outside of evil. disagree #the elbow-high diaries #also there’s more context here i’m leaving out bc its just too much to talk about in the tags of this post

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