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Yup. That's an important point:Tetsubo said:Killing a group of people without cause would in and of itself be an evil act... You would sort of doom yourself to fail...
A society who starts to use Detect Evil regularily, cannot be a good society - good people should value trust. A society using alignment detection all the time must be led by very paranoid leaders. Who probably start a conspiracy, start to plot...
Even ignoring the less than foolproof applications, a good society shouldn't intrude in such an aggravating way into people's privacy.
The only sensible use, is double-checking: You only use it on suspected perpetrators, to check high-ranking nobles (who can evade it), or to root out evil. Like the Blue Rose.