"It's unpleasant because the ancestors of humans who went around killing other humans tend to get killed themselves, and had fewer children, and eventually the survivors were people with innate tendencies not to kill people even when it seemed like there was a reason, because it just seemed unpleasant.  Stuff like that is how the ingredients for Good got into humans at all in the first place.  We would not say, on our terms, that finding it unpleasant to kill people is sufficient to be Good, but that I would find it unpleasant is an instance of how I value a habit of coordination that allows people to live together even though I am selfish."

"Set that aside.  It sounds like Asmodeus was another being of pure Evil with no humanlike goals in him, on this story.  Obvious Additional Questions then include why Asmodeus appears, on the surface of things, to be helping Cheliax, and how the ancient Good beings ended up wanting to help humans, if they had no humanity in them."

"It's unpleasant because the ancestors of humans who went around killing other humans tended to get killed themselves, and so had fewer children to carry their heritable tendencies, and eventually the survivors' children were people with innate tendencies not to kill people even when it seemed like there was a reason.  Because it just seemed unpleasant.  Stuff like that is how the ingredients for Good got into humans at all in the first place.  We would not say, on our terms, that finding it unpleasant to kill people is sufficient to be Good, but that I would find it unpleasant is an instance of how I value a habit of coordination that allows people to live together even though I am selfish."

"Set that aside.  It sounds like Asmodeus was another being of pure Evil with no humanlike goals in him, on this story.  Obvious Additional Questions then include why Asmodeus appears, on the surface of things, to be helping Cheliax, and how the ancient Good beings ended up wanting to help humans, if they had no humanity in them."

"It's unpleasant because the ancestors of humans who went around killing other humans tended to get killed themselves, and so had fewer children to carry their heritable tendencies, and eventually the survivors' children were people with innate tendencies not to kill people even when it seemed like there was a reason.  Because it just seemed unpleasant.  Stuff like that is how the ingredients for Good got into humans at all in the first place.  We would not say, on our terms, that finding it unpleasant to kill people is sufficient to be Good, but that I would find it unpleasant is an instance of how I value a habit of coordination that allows people to live together even though I am selfish."

"Set that aside, because it's drawing on Law I haven't lectured on as yet.  It sounds like Asmodeus was another being of pure Evil with no humanlike goals in him, on this story.  Obvious Additional Questions then include why Asmodeus appears, on the surface of things, to be helping Cheliax, and how the ancient Good beings ended up wanting to help humans, if they had no humanity in them."