Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-37596191-20181123045247/@comment-32182236-20190911180135

Those who believe that the player is a canon entity within the game, and the PLAYER is evil for doing Genocide, probably don't think of it in real life.

They imagine that the player is a canon entity, much like in Earthbound. (I won't spoil how they are, though.) Completely separate from Frisk, yet controlling Frisk all the same.

In essence, they're saying that we're playing as a villain. Kind of like playing the "robbers" in cops and robbers.

At least, that's how I understand it. There probably are a few people out there that think that these people actually ARE evil, rather than just PLAYING the villain, or being evil within the framework of Undertale's world.. But there are also people out there who think the Earth is flat.