History PlayingWith / GreyAndGrayMorality

* '''Deconstructed''': People in-universe begin believing that the world runs on shifty grey morality. Consistent moral perspective breaks down, leading to highly destructive thinking like "WhatIsEvil", "[[TautologicalTemplar It's only evil if someone else does it]]" and "[[WrittenByTheWinners I'm only the bad guy if I lose in the end]]". The world consequently develops into a CrapsackWorld.

* '''Deconstructed''': People in-universe begin believing that the world runs on shifty grey morality. Consistent moral perspective breaks down, leading to [[WhatIsEvil highly]] [[TautologicalTemplar destructive]] [[WrittenByTheWinners thinking]] and creating a CrapsackWorld where many people are killed, backstabbed, or otherwise wronged by [[KarmaHoudini people who consistently get away with wronging others]].

* '''Deconstructed''': People in-universe begin believing that the world runs on shifty grey morality. Consistent moral perspective breaks down, leading to [[WhatIsEvil highly]] [[TautologicalTemplar destructive]] [[WrittenByTheWinners thinking]] and creating a CrapsackWorld where many people are killed, backstabbed, or otherwise wronged by [[KarmaHoudini people who consistently get away with wronging others]] because [[IDidWhatIHadToDo they claim it was necessary]].

* '''Played For Drama''': People in-universe begin believing that the world runs on shifty grey morality. Consistent moral perspective breaks down, leading to [[WhatIsEvil highly]] [[TautologicalTemplar destructive]] [[WrittenByTheWinners thinking]] and creating a CrapsackWorld where many people are killed, backstabbed, or otherwise wronged by [[KarmaHoudini people who consistently get away with wronging others]] because [[IDidWhatIHadToDo they claim it was necessary]].
* '''Deconstructed''': See above.

Back to GreyAndGrayMorality.

%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

* '''Deconstructed''': Because the world has no meaning of what's absolutely good and evil, many people suffer unpleasant lives and/or end up getting killed due to constant changes of mankind's moral perspectives.

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* '''Discussed''': "I think it's better for the world to be this way than to being forced in picking sides."

* '''Discussed''': "I think it's better for the world with subjective morality than to being forced in picking sides."

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* '''Double Subverted''': Alice's country slaughters similar numbers of its own people over ideological purity. But it's not EvilVsEvil because Alice and Bob are still honourable soldiers, fighting for countries they love despite evil governments. (RealLife wasn't this simple -- this is a fictional example).

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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

* '''Deconstructed''': Because the world has no meaning of what's absolutely good and evil, many people suffer and are killed due to constant change of many moral perspectives.

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* '''Subverted''': Alice and Bob are honourable soldiers who love their respective countries, which are at war for reason they don't understand. It turns out that Alice's country is deeply committed to the well-being of all its citizens and Bob's country is deeply committed to racial purity, slaughtering millions of its own people in giant death camps.

* '''Conversed''': I know that they're trying to pretend that their world runs on BlackAndWhiteMorality, but I keep seeing the [[DesignatedHero protagonists]] commit [[ShootTheDog immoral acts]] while I never see any proof that TheEmpire is as oppressive as the narrator claims.

* '''Defied''': The heroes clearly draw moral lines that they vow never to cross while the villains try to close off any trace of goodness in their minds.

* '''Justified''': The world has no built in moral system. Good and Evil are what you make of it.

* '''Lampshaded''': Alice: "Who are the good guys? Who are the bad guys?" Bob: "There are none."

* '''Enforced''': The author grew tired of good versus evil battles, so he wants to throw in a conflict where morality doesn't matter.

* '''Defied''': ???

* '''Lampshaded''': "Who are the good guys? Who are the bad guys?"

* '''Justified''': ???

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* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is an {{Anti Hero}}ine who battles with the {{Anti Villain}} Bob.

* '''Enforced''': The author grew tired of good versus evil battles, so he wants to throw in a conflict where morality does not exist.