Author: Eric Christian Berg (---.amherst.com)
Date: 03-20-2002 07:43
For the Dark, I'd suggest focusing on the last precept. Encouraging suicide as a form of self-actualization can appeal to ideals of martyrdom and self-sacrifice which the humane can identify with and even approve of. You merely have the Dark character build his personal philosophy around an elaboration on the last precept that places dying in the service of one's own ideals as the pinnacle of self-determination and have them spend a lot of their effort encouraging fanatics, freedom fighters, and other suicidally motivated idealists. They can argue that allowing such people to die a mundane death is robbing them of their life's meaning and point out that all great things have only been won because there were people involved willing to sacrifice in order to pursue it. It is certainly a tenable position and almost admirable.
Eric
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