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Dark Mirror Ideologies


A Dark Mirror ideology stands only in moral opposition to its counterpart, while otherwise making the exact same factual claims about how the world works. The only thing the belief systems disagree about is what we're supposed to do about it.

Satan, being a fallen angel, has celestial knowledge beyond man's understanding and believes every factual claim professed by the most pious, most orthodox theologian, even going so far as to acknowledge every last word of the Nicene creed as just another boring fact about the universe, as uncontroversial to him as the law of gravity or the weak nuclear force. Similarly, Darth Vader and the Emperor seem to be the only "Dark Jedi" we ever encounter in the original Star Wars trilogy, with the rest of the empire happy to oppress the rebel alliance on purely secular grounds. In fact, Dark Vegans might posit that one should strive to eat animals with the highest degree of sentience, the greatest capacity for pain, and the most moral significance, which starts to sound like some kind of bizarre man-eating cannibal cult.

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