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<blockquote data-quote="Fanaelialae" data-source="post: 7274464" data-attributes="member: 53980"><p>Sure, but in a close-knit community where everyone is your neighbor, coworker, and relative? (Before you do, I'm sure that you or someone else could find an example where such a thing happened, but my point is that it would be very much the exception rather than the rule.) </p><p></p><p>You have to keep in mind that a medieval community is much different from the modern world. Here I can hop in a car and drive hundreds of miles in a few hours. I don't know any of my neighbors names (I moved recently, but nonetheless). I can fire up my computer and talk to someone who is on the other side of the planet.</p><p></p><p>In an average pseudo-medieval D&D setting, the typical peasant probably didn't travel more than a few miles from his birth place. The people in his village are folks he's known his entire life, and are likely the majority of folks he's ever going to know (unless it's a particularly busy town, but that's unlikely the case for a town of 70). Unless he has very serious psychological issues, those are not people he is going to harm, not even for significant gain.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fanaelialae, post: 7274464, member: 53980"] Sure, but in a close-knit community where everyone is your neighbor, coworker, and relative? (Before you do, I'm sure that you or someone else could find an example where such a thing happened, but my point is that it would be very much the exception rather than the rule.) You have to keep in mind that a medieval community is much different from the modern world. Here I can hop in a car and drive hundreds of miles in a few hours. I don't know any of my neighbors names (I moved recently, but nonetheless). I can fire up my computer and talk to someone who is on the other side of the planet. In an average pseudo-medieval D&D setting, the typical peasant probably didn't travel more than a few miles from his birth place. The people in his village are folks he's known his entire life, and are likely the majority of folks he's ever going to know (unless it's a particularly busy town, but that's unlikely the case for a town of 70). Unless he has very serious psychological issues, those are not people he is going to harm, not even for significant gain. [/QUOTE]
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