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<blockquote data-quote="Myrddin ap Taliesen" data-source="post: 1542271" data-attributes="member: 17520">But wouldn't a LE character typically have some sort of personal gain or evil ambitions from the whole thing, plus, at the very least, a personal code he sticks to?&nbsp; Plus, the character considers himself to be acting in the cause of good, despite all, so should intentions count for anything?&nbsp; I suppose it ends up sort of like John Travolta's character in Swordfish with the question of, &quot;If you could end suffering, all human suffering, but the cost was the life of one innocent child, would you do it?&nbsp; Now what about 10 children?&nbsp; 100 children?&nbsp; 1,000 children, to save the lives and health of billions?&quot;Don't know if that's exact, but you get the idea.&nbsp; A character who believes that the ends, no matter how extreme, do justify the means and that sometimes the only way to achieve the greater good is through unscrupulous means.-Myrddin</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Myrddin ap Taliesen, post: 1542271, member: 17520"] But wouldn't a LE character typically have some sort of personal gain or evil ambitions from the whole thing, plus, at the very least, a personal code he sticks to? Plus, the character considers himself to be acting in the cause of good, despite all, so should intentions count for anything? I suppose it ends up sort of like John Travolta's character in Swordfish with the question of, "If you could end suffering, all human suffering, but the cost was the life of one innocent child, would you do it? Now what about 10 children? 100 children? 1,000 children, to save the lives and health of billions?" Don't know if that's exact, but you get the idea. A character who believes that the ends, no matter how extreme, do justify the means and that sometimes the only way to achieve the greater good is through unscrupulous means. -Myrddin [/QUOTE]

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