I think it should depend on setting. Goblins are always ambiguous with their loyalties. I have no problem with regular trader goblins (the only kind we have now) being passive. It's the armored fishbot killers that I want wiping everything out on sight... and if they aggro in their homeland when we invade, all the better.
What I care about is...
Who's their primal!? Based on their love of jinglyshine, I nominate Scrooge McDuck.
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