I really think people blow this crying about Orcs out of proportion, there was NEVER an actually interesting villain in this game whose reasons of being a villain boil down only to "I'm an Orc, Goblin, Drow or other evil race". And saying a whole species is inherently evil effectively diminishes all evil they do because you are saying they never could choose not to do it, which reduces them to children who don't know better. People should move on and stop flooding my yt feed with identical videos repeating the same points.
The article you're looking for is in Dragon #62 - The half-orc point of view. There's a whole series of them and they're all good reads.
Yep, thanks. And I found a source that has an archive here. And it seems that the canon (at least back then) followed Tolkien's lore a bit in that the orcs were made as revenge for being unfairly treated, but it's not quite as direct with suggesting evil was directly "poured" into them but more that they're just following the commands given without thinking about it. So is that evil, or just mislead through generations?