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* Lord Vetinari claims this to Vimes in ''[[Discworld/Guards Guards|Guards Guards]]'' ("A great rolling sea of evil ... but people like you put together little rafts of rules and vaguely good intentions and say, this is the opposite, this will triumph in the end, Amazing!"). Vimes's entire subsequent career proves him wrong. |
* Lord Vetinari claims this to Vimes in ''[[Discworld/Guards Guards|Guards Guards]]'' ("A great rolling sea of evil ... but people like you put together little rafts of rules and vaguely good intentions and say, this is the opposite, this will triumph in the end, Amazing!"). Vimes's entire subsequent career proves him wrong. |
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* This is and [[Good Is Not Nice]] is what usually leads to [[Star Wars Expanded Universe|Jedi purges]]. In many eras, Jedi candidates are harvested from infancy or early childhood, cut off from and forbidden "attachments" (family, love, and any close bonds) or strong emotions, cultivated in relative isolation in temples and enclaves, and restricted from anything that challenges the prevailing dogma unless they're Master rank. This is all to make it so the product of this system never succumbs to the Dark Side. Then, they're sent out into the galaxy into the thick of galactic conflict as fighters (who can't strike unless in defense), exposing them to things that would make Audie Murphy wince, while being forbidden the comforts that even a common soldier would get (like friends, lovers, or a family to come home to)...And then The Order ''wonders'' why so many of them snap and start carving up planets? |
* This is and [[Good Is Not Nice]] is what usually leads to [[Star Wars Expanded Universe|Jedi purges]]. In many eras, Jedi candidates are harvested from infancy or early childhood, cut off from and forbidden "attachments" (family, love, and any close bonds) or strong emotions, cultivated in relative isolation in temples and enclaves, and restricted from anything that challenges the prevailing dogma unless they're Master rank. This is all to make it so the product of this system never succumbs to the Dark Side. Then, they're sent out into the galaxy into the thick of galactic conflict as fighters (who can't strike unless in defense), exposing them to things that would make Audie Murphy wince, while being forbidden the comforts that even a common soldier would get (like friends, lovers, or a family to come home to)...And then The Order ''wonders'' why so many of them snap and start carving up planets? |
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* While it's not so much "good" as "good intentions," the [[Green-Sky Trilogy|Kindar]] have done such an awesome job of banishing conflict, crime, and [[Newspeak|even words like "anger,"]] that their society is killing itself. Their Erdling counterparts are still hippies by our standards, but their acceptance of their emotional darker side makes them more robust. |
* While it's not so much "good" as "good intentions," the [[Green-Sky Trilogy|Kindar]] have done such an awesome job of banishing conflict, crime, and [[Newspeak|even words like "anger,"]] that their society is killing itself. Their Erdling counterparts are still hippies by our standards, but their acceptance of their emotional darker side makes them more robust. |
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* In ''[[The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant]]'', the Creator - who created the entire universe of the Land mind you - is unable to interfere in his creation's affairs because if he did so, he would cause an instant end of the world. He only has some power over what specific human is summoned to the Land in the extremely rare cases where someone in that world decides to use a summoning ritual, but he has to come into consensus with Lord Foul about the choice. Meanwhile the evil god Lord Foul is trapped inside the universe, ruining everyone's day on a regular basis. |
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