At Its Heart, The Overarching Narrative Theme Of The Dream SMP Is Not About "Good Vs Evil", And To Try

At its heart, the overarching narrative theme of the Dream SMP is not about "Good vs Evil", and to try to analyse its story in that framework is to completely misunderstand and misrepresent what it's trying to say.

Yes, there are characters who do good things, and yes there are characters who do evil things. These are often the same characters. And that's just the actions themselves, taking out of the equation the intentions and context, which does affect the answer to the questions of "was this action good or bad? was it understandable? was it justified?". It's the difference between saying "Character A killed Character B" and "Character A killed Character B in self-defence" - the context matters.

It's not as simple as "well, these characters are opposing this other character who's doing bad things so therefore they must be our Good Characters", and to pretend it is, and that this gives them moral authority forever, is laughable. The story being told is not a story of Good vs Evil - that doesn't mean that those types of stories don't exist, or that they lack value, but only that the Dream SMP is not one of them.

To wash a whole set of characters with the Good brush and another set with the Evil brush is an approach so lacking of nuance and utterly simplistic that to use it in serious analysis would be to so badly misunderstand the themes of the Dream SMP that you're basically making up your own version of canon and trying to pass it off as the true story.

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