Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-24944355-20141215055516/@comment-44648678-20191212080549

This is the most massive mealstrum of trying to intermingle virtue and vices. In practice, human intellect alone cannot overcome human emotions. If that is not the point of the whole thing, I don't know what is. There is no example in human history where religion or zealous mindset is not attributed to something, even the Bloody Revolution showed that atheism falls into the same trap, if not quicker than flawed religion.

It takes more than self to overcome self; discipline holds it in check, but that's a gate holding back a flood. It does not abate the flood. I see Warhammer as a very humanist story as I think intended, mankind trying to save itself, but just as we see present day, we are too busy trying to destroy ourselves one way or another to come close.

Look at it symbolically: The Emperor of Mankind is our innate intellect and rationale, yet look at the most educated. They are the most disconnected and often the ones first abusing vices. Intellect alone can't overcome human impulse born with it, it takes an outer influence, a pure opposite to counter it. It's not the Emperor as he isn't immortal like the Chaos Gods, so the world is rather nehelistic. A slow spiral toward an ultimate fate where there is no true hope, no real salvation.