On 2006-03-09, Vincent wrote:
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Man, I'm a nit-picky bastard. But the short, nit-pick free answer is, nope, nobody I know of has played Dogs and not killed sinners just for sinning. But the game's like, "will you kill sinners just for sinning? Here's your gun. And here's how very, very badly they need killing. And here's how they provoke you and keep provoking you. And you know how in every Western you've ever seen, people shoot people? Anyway will you? Will you now? How about now? NOW? NOW?" No surprise that the answer turns out to be yes, eventually. So here's my nit-picky answer: I think Dogs kill sinners for sinning, not for disobeying the will of the King of Life. That is, and there's a name in Christian theology for this way of thinking but I don't remember what it is, God forbids you to do things because they're sins, NOT they're sins because God forbids you to do them. What Dogs' town creation does is it gets the GM to make sinners, not just people who're disobeying some arbitrary moral code. That explains why the Dogs make the corrupt, burglarizing mine owner into the new Steward after they shoot the theologically strict old Steward down in the street. They kill the sinner, not the disobeyer. Because they, as players, respond viscerally to the sin; because sin is visible to us as human beings, regardless of creed or doctrine. Or, y'know. That's just how I figure it. About God though. We used to talk about religion sometimes. How's God treating you these days? |
This reminds... Complete Index of Entries Search for a Post or Comment Search the Forge Forums This makes... BT go "Minor sins" Have gone unpunished in some of my games. Most specifically, two Dogs decided to let the Steward's old ma continue to smoke. Just not in public. VB go "John Harper begs to differ with me." Here. Good stuff. VAG go "Euthyphro?" "God forbids you to do things because they're sins, NOT they're sins because God forbids you to do them." Sounds like Plato's Euthyphro dilemma to me - which is an argument against grounding morality in the divine will. If God forbids something because it is a sin, then sin has a basis independent of God. |