are vampires really evil?

[VeryOblivious]

In my mind, they are as bad as unicorns, winged cyclopes, talking lizards, man-sized mosquitoes...

 

[Balaxe]

Vampires are just a representation of a human that is inhuman. The stories of vampires began roughly during the 15th century as a way of people to rationalize how someone could do evil acts such as murder, I could go in to far more detail but I'm lazy.

 

[manythings]

Is it evil to suck someones blood for nurishment or just hunger? In the same vein (no pun intended) you could argue that people are evil for drinking milk and eating beef.

Cows aren't people. Vampires are little more than parasites. A human can live without a cow, a vampire can't live without a host.

cows are people to cows. if they could think in enough depth they would think we're not people, but the smarter and/or more naive ones would say what I just said.

I'll dispute it on the the basis that cows aren't self-aware. That's why I'll eat beef but not Dolphin, Raven or higher primates. I'd like to try gazelle though.

 

[Coppernerves]

As far as I'm concerned (I have my own vampire lore to use if I ever make something featuring them), most vampires would start out evil, as becoming a vampire requires the performance of a demonological ritual of extreme cruelty to the human sacrifice.

However some people might really want vampire powers for a good cause, good enough to justify the ritual, and also somehow have a solid grounding in demonology without being evil or seriously against demonology.

Such vampires may feel obliged to devote free time (which they do have, not needing sleep and being able to switch into human form in order to resist the suns' rays at the cost of many superpowers) to help enough that they compensate for all the killing, or alternatively go vigilante/murderous-vampire-bat-man and try to find villains to suck the blood from.

However most vampires would've been psychos to do the ritual, and become even worse as the ritual demon constantly whispers in their heads like a cross between Robin Williams, Alan Carr, an annoying landlord, a dominatrix and a Spanish inquisitor, who can read the vampires mind, including senses, memories, thoughts and feelings, especially since after death the demon torments them in its' own world for the duration the vampire lived for in the living world.