so, here’s a question, one i found pretty telling when considering it from the viewpoint of my own asshole elf: it’s the good old mengzi vs xunzi argument of “are people good or evil?” mengzi thought that it’s society that corrupts people and xunzi thought it was that people are evil and society forces them to be otherwise. so, what would old burger’s opinion be on that… are people inherently good and he’s the oddity, or are people inherently bad and would be like him if they could?

isei-silva:

You’d have to assume Beurghes would care about anyone enough ever to really spare a thought to someone other than himself at any given moment. Short answer; it wouldn’t matter to him whether someone is evil by themselves or by society, it has nothing to do with him. It doesn’t affect him in the long run.

Aside that he doesn’t see what he does as evil. Not in Azeroth’s definition of evil, of demons and monsters and world-scale catastrophies and corrupt deviants bent on taking/destroying the world. He does what he does for himself and would rather not needlessly involve those that don’t need to be. People are better off his business when they’re happy living their own little lives.

So, by nature or nurture they just better not get in his way.