Video Games · 2011
What is better? To be born good or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?
— Paarthurnax · The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
Paarthurnax asks whether goodness matters more as an inherited condition or as a difficult choice. The question puts moral effort at the centre of judgement: resisting a harmful impulse can have value precisely because it is hard.
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