If, as the game suggests, reality is truly subjective in the Mage universe, the only constraint on anything is the collective opinion of the totality of avatars. That's the only objective truth. Everything else is a construct - or, depending on how we look at it, a lie or a made-truth.
Moral standards are no more real and objective than physical laws - most of which are mutable by mages on Earth, practically all of which seem to be mutable by mages in the spirit worlds. It may not be the case that mages can truly alter logic, but they certainly seem to able to determine which axioms...
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Hello. I don't seem to be receiving emails about changing my password at my registered address. They're not being filtered out, nor are they in my trash. Thanks in advance.
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No 'redeeming element'. That necessarily involves an external judgment imposed upon their system of beliefs. The Nephandi have to be as right as anyone else, if we're going to take seriously what Mage claims to be about....
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I see this as a major problem with all editions of M:tAs. The game talks about how belief creates truth, but it contains more pre-packaged truths I could easily count. One of them is that there is a faction that is Inherently Evil and metaphysically recognized by everyone as being enemies. If you look at what M20 initially uses to describe them, they could include character concepts in which they're like the Euthanatoi but for the cosmos rather than individual things within it....
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