the_dunk_tank
It's the dunk tank.
This is where you come to post big-brained hot takes by chuds, libs, or even fellow leftists, and tear them to itty-bitty pieces with precision dunkstrikes.
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I'm going to work on my magic college novel today. I suddenly feel less bad for my rewarded-for-bad-behavior bad guy.
"Yeah, he was born evil and couldn't help it. That doesn't mean we should cheer when he tries to kill good people" is so dogshit. It's like the NPC meme. It's like a denial that other people have consciousness behind their face. It's an inability to conceive that people have different circumstances that breed different conclusions for ethics. It's that "you can either agree with me or be foolish" that takes you™️ up the ladder in a corporation.
Yeah, don't worry about your villain feeling too "flat" or anything, especially if this is a first draft. As long as they have motivation behind their actions, that still puts them ahead of like 60% of all fictional villains.