Lying to an 8 year old - The Truth about Chaos?!?

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**Spuj**

You think it's bad now, what happens when he starts asking questions about the Dark Angels?

**the ancient**

Turn it around on him, ANY time he refuses/doesnt do what hes told. Pain glove time.
But theyre supposed to be the good guys.
Quiet you. Let me brand you on the bottom, after your run down this terror tunnel.
That might show him whos the good guys.

**RedCommander**

AnomanderRake wrote:
RedCommander wrote:
AnomanderRake wrote:
I'd have gone with "From a certain point of view."

That's ground for the "Chaos is not really evil, when you think about it, am I like right?"-argument. Which is a baffling argument.

Nope. It's about the nature of extremes. The Chaos Gods represent essential bits of human nature taken to their absolute extremes, while a lot of the other folks in the setting attempt to deny those elements in their entirety. Take Tzeentch, for instance, whose profile is ambition and change. Go too far with it and you end up sacrificing everything else for power (and possibly turning yourself into a tentacle beast), but if you wander towards the other extreme you end up with the Imperial dogmatic suppression of all initiative and innovation.

Both extremes are bad options. Whether you think the Imperium or Chaos is more evil depends on which extreme you think is worse.

Imperium is the only reasonable way during these insane times. It's not about extremes, it's about the only sensible decision. And that's the Imperium.

"Only the insane have the strength to prosper."

**Torga_DW**

TarkinLarson wrote:
So I bought the getting started with 40k magazine so my wife could get an easy idea of what it's all about.

My nephew was around and started flicking through it. He got to the page with a showcase of some chaos space marines and asked "Are these the baddies?"

I took a deep breath, gritted my teeth and felt myself lie to him. "Yes. Those are the bad guys."

I know I should have told him the truth... Told him about the false emperor.

What would you have done?

It doesn't matter - you'll all be virus bombed anyways because someone on your planet read something they shouldn't. Take comfort in your last hours that your nephew was able to make a black and white distinction between good and evil.

**Spado**

You betrayed your own father by turning against him. It's not about black and white distinction, chaos space marines are the bad guys of the warhammer 40k universe. If I were your wife I'd burn all your heretics miniatures and then throw their ashes in the ocean.

**biggie_reg**

While you all are muckin' about, my boyz are krumpin' all spikey boyz and spehss mareens! Da only bad guyz are those that don't put up a propah fight!