• wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 days ago

    No one said Smaug isn’t of the “animal kingdom”, but your attempt to excuse his choices as unavoidable, blameless instinct is ridiculous. He was the opposite of mindless, and even your rebuttal with humankind as a mirror undermines your half-baked argument, friend.

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      6 days ago

      Then he’s an animal, no one said just an animal so I’m not sure why you would take offense to it. No one said he was or needed to be mindless for him not to be evil.

      You’re ignoring the fact they would not have conflict with humanoids of humanoids weren’t greedy to the point of risking utter burning destruction to cling to their riches.

      Less break it down.

      Is murder evil?

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        6 days ago

        Nah, let’s not. Your argument is inherently flawed, and your logical fallacies are masturbatory. I’m good, thanks. I don’t need to give you a hand there, you’re all over it.