The Morality of Necromancy

[Aegrus]

I doubt anyone cares about this, but it's been bothering me for a week. Pick up any fantasy book, movie, or game, and there's a very good chance that the antagonist is a necromancer. And more importantly, there are never any necromancer protagonists. Why?

The obvious answer- they resurrect corpses, and corpses are icky. (And sometimes hungry for flesh.) But from a logical standpoint, necromancy is not only affective (for obvious reasons- you can create an army of mindless slaves who don't need rights because they have no more intelligence than a flea), but also more moral than non-necromancy. How can the so-called heroes justify sending a live army to go murder some goblins when they could just ask their local necromancer to send a graveyard full of the undead to do it? If you send the living to fight when you could send the dead, are you not causelessly murdering live soldiers?

Maybe instead of questing to burn the friendly neighborhood necromancer at the stake, an army should put him on its payroll?

Why are necromancers always the bad guys?



Tee hee. . .love this picture.