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| - In an all-grey conflict, neither side is totally good or completely evil. Both sides have a strong, justifiable reason for fighting, and contain a mixture of people of all kinds, from admirable, upstanding individuals to vicious, slimy scumbags. In most cases, one side has better reasons and more good people than the other. The protagonists usually fight for this better side, and if they don't, they'll switch sides before the end. While the audience roots for the better side, they still have sympathy for the opposition. Note that the sides often will still be Dress-Coded for Your Convenience.
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| - In an all-grey conflict, neither side is totally good or completely evil. Both sides have a strong, justifiable reason for fighting, and contain a mixture of people of all kinds, from admirable, upstanding individuals to vicious, slimy scumbags. In most cases, one side has better reasons and more good people than the other. The protagonists usually fight for this better side, and if they don't, they'll switch sides before the end. While the audience roots for the better side, they still have sympathy for the opposition. The result of such a conflict depends on where the story lies on the Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism. At the idealistic end, both sides will eventually realize that fighting is futile and end up putting aside their differences to learn from each other and make a new and better world. At the centre, one side usually ends up crushing the other; this brings about peace, but of a hollow, depressing kind, as a faction with noble ideals has been destroyed. At the cynical end, both sides gradually become less sympathetic and more evil as time goes on until in the end, the more evil, cruel, and vicious side annihilates the other, ushering in an era of harsh rule and oppression or both parties end up fighting to the death. In some cases, the story will end with both sides teaming up against an unambiguously evil third faction, who may even have been behind the war in the first place. When this villain is defeated, the grey sides almost invariably decide to live in peace (in the harsher version, the casualties from fighting that villain may find that there is actually now enough of whatever they fought over for all the survivors. Ultra-harsh version of this has the realization that the resources have been spent on the war). A result of the above is that Grey-and-Grey Morality has one potentially great advantage: It can be easier to maintain suspense regarding the ending. In Black and White Morality situations, the ending is almost always a foregone conclusion that good wins in the end; it's just a matter of how. In a Grey-and-Grey situation, either side might conceivably win, or both, or neither. Note that the sides often will still be Dress-Coded for Your Convenience. Contrast with Black and White Morality. Compare Both Sides Have a Point, Black and Grey Morality, White and Grey Morality, Black and Black Morality, Full Spectrum Morality, Order Versus Chaos, and A Lighter Shade of Grey. Feuding Families and Cycle of Revenge stories tend to fall under this, as do many depictions of historical wars. A Mob War may be this, or may fall under Black and Grey Morality. Any betrayals within a Grey-and-Grey Morality Universe will, by their very nature, be Hazy Feel Turns. Examples of Grey and Gray Morality include:
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