In message <Pine.GSO.4.58.0405151616050.25937_at_...> Mikko Rintasaari writes:
>
>I wrote
>> >Evil, and if not automatically evil at least flirting pretty close to
>> >it...
>
>On Sat, 15 May 2004, Peter Metcalfe wrote:
>> The Brithini, the Boristi and the Galvosti disagree.
>
>It's true. There may be a few things going on, all of them called
>tapping:
>
>Finding a source of essense power and tapping it to power your magic is
>of course what being a wizard/sorceror is all about. Sometimes these
>essenses are a being that other people worship as a god, sometimes they
>are ambient essenses in the landscape, wind, rain or sunlight (as is
>done by the brithini in Arolant). Mostly, of course, they are ambient
>flows of essense in the essense planes.
>
>One can also tap the mind, soul and body of fellow human beings. In
>doing this, people are flirting with chaos, since the destruction of
>souls by tapping is very remeniscent of the ultimate destruction by
>chaos.
>
>At least that was the picture as I undestood it a few years back.
The moral issue is that some cultures in Glorantha such as the Brithini
don't believe that others are people so it's no different tapping a
non-Brithini than it is any other animal.
RW comparisons are left as an exercise to the reader.
--
Donald Oddy
http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/