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** [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Gray_Jedi Gray Jedi] are a milder example. They don't necessarily believe that good and evil don't exist, but Gray Jedi of varying backgrounds and species do reject the Jedi Council's dogmatic view of the force and explore both the dark and light side.
* ''[[Discworld]]''
** In ''[[Discworld/Carpe Jugulum|Carpe Jugulum]]'', the sophisticated modern vampires claim good and evil are just two ways of looking at the same thing. In the next book, ''[[Discworld/The Fifth Elephant|The Fifth Elephant]]'', there's a [[Call Back]] in Vimes' internal monologue:
{{quote|''Vimes had heard that good and evil were just two ways of looking at the same thing - or, at least, so said people traditionally considered under the category of "evil".''}}
** In ''[[Discworld/Making Money|Making Money]]'', a professor performing a necromatic rite (an insorcism, which make a dead professor happy and keep him out of their hair), [[Bring Them Around|argues with his students]] that [[What Is Evil?|who can say what is right and wrong]]? When they still argue, he offers to give them all A's. Whereupon one sees that it goes beyond mundane definitions of good and evil, in service of a higher truth.
** Bel-Shamaroth in ''[[Discworld/The Colour of Magic|The Colour of Magic]]'', being an [[Eldritch Abomination]], is described as "the opposite side of a coin where good and evil were the same side".
* In Susan Kay's ''Phantom'', Erik loses all sense of good and evil after realizing how easy it was to kill his Gypsy captor, and regards murder as just another art to master.
* The ''[[Children of the Lamp]]'' series features the Tree of Logic, proximity to which will eliminate all senses of good and evil from a djinn (possibly a [[Muggle]], but it's never fully explained). It's used in order to judge better, but it also eliminates all kindness, making the affected person a jerk.
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