User blog comment:Commander Evan Spock/Klingon mythology, and just why do they say things are "evil"?/@comment-1340488-20100104235128

well, its like this...

Klingon concepts of good and evil are different than human ones. To a Klingon, honor is the highest standard, and therefore things that would bring honor to your clan or your race are considered "good". In contrast, things that Klingons would consider cowardly - ie. humans and their ways and methods - would be considered the opposite of "good" and therefore would be "evil."

Furthermore, no: Fek'lhr is more like Cerberus of Greek or Garmr of Nordic mythology who guards the gates of the underworld NOT to keep people out but to keep the damned in.

In conclusion, yes, it would seem incoherent to human understandings that a Klingon use a word that humans attribute to a religious figure (evil = devil) that is apparently non-existent in their mythology: however, the concepts of good and evil, though some would call them similar, are distinctly variable in every race. (For instance, the Ferengi view the acquisition of wealth as both a virtue and a "good", whereas humans would view it as a vice or, to certain extremes, an evil...NOT that I'm comparing Ferengi and Klingons, I'm using examples to make a point): the point is that, as it is with humans where our concepts of good and evil are relative to each individual person, logically, those same concepts are relative to each individual race.

Bookworm1138 23:51, January 4, 2010 (UTC)