Interesting topic, and a lot of lively discussion. My two septims:
I personally can’t sustain an ‘evil’ character in any video game because most of the time what a game considers evil I just chalk up to being an a-hole. True evil is much harder to quantify because, as DE said, it is all subjective.
That doesn’t mean that I agree with the notion that ‘survival’ behooves a vampire (or werewolf) to put him/herself beyond the reach of morality. If said vampire (or werewolf) were born a vampire (or werewolf), and therefore not human, then that individual would have an argument. Catching a disease does not somehow lift one from moral obligation. Especially when the choice also exists to end one’s existence on the grounds that it endangers others. Becoming a vampire does not make one evil. It simply makes one unfortunate. Choosing to remain one when a cure exists (except on the PS3), and then keeping people as live cattle simply to fulfill a selfish need for nourishment is morally wrong (and therefore, by definition, evil)... no matter how you try to justify it.
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