[DF] Why not have some pure "bad guy" races in DF?

[Stone Dog]

Originally Posted by aesir23

If the tiger is not evil for eating a man, than why is the ogre evil for doing the same?

One reason might be...

To a tiger a man is just handy protein walking about and probably not being very careful about who is going to try to eat it. So tigers are incapable of comprehending the value of a moral argument. Even if you could magically "talk" to one of them, morality would be simply alien. They are amoral even if trained.

To an ogre a man is something that will scream and suffer when he is roasted alive and devoured. Ogres might be capable of understanding talk of mercy and compassion, but usually they willingly reject it in favor of cruelty and oppression. They are immoral, but you can sometimes dig up a fairly well behaved mercenary or something.