[Paranitis]

Well yeah..I tend to smack the players of paladins who use "detect evil" as free-passage for killing evil without context.

I am just saying..certain races/monsters tend to act certain ways..they go with what works for them. I would hate to have a fantasy game where you have no feeling whether or not something is bad until they do something. I am not saying people should just kill things because they think they are evil either..but that's besides the point.

Let's say something else then for an example.

Goblins for years have had a thing for killing innocents, raiding, pillaging..and so on. This tale gets told throughout the world. A lone goblin comes to your town gates..you can't just look at him and seriously think he is okay to have in your town. You might tell him to go away..or you may go out and kill him for what you think he might do once he comes inside.

You never witnessed this goblin trying to save a group of baby bears from drowning, but you have it fresh in your memory about what his "people" are capable of doing.

In D&D/FR if you are part of a group that is known for evil acts towards your people you start out as "guilty until proven innocent".

Now if you were in a part of the world where there was a tribe of goblins nearby that constantly helped your town and then a lone goblin showed up you would let him in. But if you were to go outside the border of your lands to some other town and you pass by a group of goblins your guard would be down because the group by YOUR town is peaceful, but these ones murder you for being human, or elf, or whatever.

I say it is better to have a template (alignment) that shows how a creature tends to be..such as evil or whatever. And then at the DM's choice, make a peaceful group here or there if he wants to. Because like I said..in D&D "always" means like 95%. So a goblin most likely is evil so you have to take precautious. In Eberron, everything is 50/50 so you just stand around waiting for something to do something bad or not.

Oh..as far as racism goes. It is more racist to be paranoid of others for not understanding them rather then knowing that 95% of them actually DO tend to be bad.