“I guess I’m a little confused about what makes this gold ‘evil.’ It’s just gold. It doesn’t have a morality.”

“Well, it started as conflict gold, hauled from the earth under slave labor conditions by miners in Ouagadougou.”

“Okay, but-”

“Then it was bought by the Cult of Sethsirius and cast into an idol of their dark god, who promises his acolytes a swift and merciful death as their only reward.”

“Right, but-”

And then, after being stolen, it was melted down into bullion and traded for drugs before being used to buy child soldiers to guard an opium field.”

“Sure, okay, fine. But what has it done recently?”

“It killed a man by falling on him. Unprovoked.”

“Still not sold on its evilness, sorry.”