[HoneyBadger]

I never really liked the idea of inherant evil. It's reminiscent of the concept of original sin, which has been a carrier for some of the worst sorts of human behavior.

In Tolkien's case, the orcs were furthermore originally elves, who had been twisted and tortured into "evil beings", so in that case, there's the doubled permission to not only kill the different, but by killing them, to put them out of their supposed misery.

I do find, however, that the Aboleths in the game are as close to broadly and objectively evil as anything I've ever encountered. Ofcourse, this is from the point of view of a human, looking upon a society of highly intelligent and extremely alien creatures (who still seem to share our own motivations, oddly enough).