Summary: That title should really be “Dungeons and Dragons (and Ethics).” Or “D&D, Star Wars, and Cats (with some Buddhism sprinkled in).”<br> In our first episode for 2016, we wanted to begin a conversation about social ethics — somehow we got sidetracked by Dungeons and Dragons, the classic role playing game that we both grew up with. Seriously, though. Is there a way to reconcile the D&D ethical and moral <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alignment_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)">alignment system</a> with Buddhist ethics? Unsurprisingly, we go off on several tangents before getting to the notion of absolute good and evil that seems implicit in the D&D system and that (some) Buddhist traditions seek to transcend. And we end, of course, talking about cats.<br> Happy new year!<br> Image of <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/satorinihon/6771125221/">Tempel Kenninji in Kyoto</a>, Japan copyright: © 2010, Christian Kaden<br> Licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0<br> ID: DSC02893<br>
