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<blockquote data-quote="FrozenNorth" data-source="post: 8489099" data-attributes="member: 7020832"><p>This is very far from expecting alignment to operate by absolutes. At this point, alignment is completely divorced from any real world morality.</p><p></p><p>If unjustly burning people at the stake is not enough to qualify for the Evil alignment, what is?</p><p></p><p>If a person only kills one extremely wealthy relative for his fortune, but otherwise takes few moral or immoral actions otherwise, would you consider them Neutral?</p><p></p><p></p><p>That is operating on a cartoon-level on evil. Halruun is not LE because he may feel slightly bad about burning people at the stake. Not enough to stop mind you, and only when confronted by a person he attempted to burn.</p><p></p><p>And why would he stop, after all, his LG goddess doesn’t consider this a sufficiently serious transgression to deny him his divine spells.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Or, like most people, he doesn’t like being confronted by his mistakes.</p><p></p><p>For all that you are accusing the people who criticize the game of lacking nuance, this view of alignment that requires Evil to be unapologetically unrepentantly evil (to the point, as described elsewhere in this thread, where you are randomly attacking passerby) is the one that lacks nuance.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FrozenNorth, post: 8489099, member: 7020832"] This is very far from expecting alignment to operate by absolutes. At this point, alignment is completely divorced from any real world morality. If unjustly burning people at the stake is not enough to qualify for the Evil alignment, what is? If a person only kills one extremely wealthy relative for his fortune, but otherwise takes few moral or immoral actions otherwise, would you consider them Neutral? That is operating on a cartoon-level on evil. Halruun is not LE because he may feel slightly bad about burning people at the stake. Not enough to stop mind you, and only when confronted by a person he attempted to burn. And why would he stop, after all, his LG goddess doesn’t consider this a sufficiently serious transgression to deny him his divine spells. Or, like most people, he doesn’t like being confronted by his mistakes. For all that you are accusing the people who criticize the game of lacking nuance, this view of alignment that requires Evil to be unapologetically unrepentantly evil (to the point, as described elsewhere in this thread, where you are randomly attacking passerby) is the one that lacks nuance. [/QUOTE]
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