Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-7232811-20130620224607/@comment-6134883-20130629015144

Some wise ancient philospher (possibly Empy in one of his previous identities) observed that no man deliberately does evil in his own eyes. What makes our beloved Catholic Space Nazis scary is their absolute belief in the rightness of killing the alien and the witch. What's even scarier is they have a point! The major alien threats are hostile by conviction - and the Eldar are arrogant asseholes who DESERVE to be dammed. Most if not all of the minor xenos are tools of Chaos and the Devil is not only real but there are four of him (her, it)!! In this setting tolerance is giving an open gate to chaos cults and Daemonic take-over. The Tau clearly know this as well as their 'Greater Good' seems to involve assimilating aliens into their system and given that that system is controlled by enigmatic and powerful xenos and that nobody has ever bothered DEFINING the Greater Good I think strong suspicion is justified - again given the setting.