Negative energy is NOT evil. I may get a little hotheaded over this, but negative energy is a universal force. It'd be like saying Gravity is evil, when it's not. Negative Energy is a force of entropy and decay. That in and of itself does not make it evil. It is a balancing force of positive energy, which can kill you just as easily-the Plane of Positive Energy will make you explode, so Negative energy is required to balance it out. Everything must decay, but without the decay and eventual destruction of the old, no new life could be created. Sure, our powers are fueled a bit more by emotion then other mages, but negative energy, again, is not evil.<br/><br/>Heck, you want a mind blower, in older editions of D&D, healing was under the Necromancy school. You were 'removing' negative energy in order to facilitate healing. It was weird.