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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raloc" data-source="post: 3291590" data-attributes="member: 28093">Personally, I think you made up your mind and refused to see the illogic of your own argument.  You're claiming that every actor should bear moral culpability for the consequences of every other action in existence (either that, or you're putting some arbitary cap on the measurement of consequences after the act, which is also absurd)  It's not a long shot to call that "absurd" since it makes no sense whatever(not to mention it would render alignment 100% unplayable, as the DM would be calculating the consequences of every PC action indefinitely).By your own stated reasoning though, every action should bear the moral weight of every consequence it causes.  The reason this is absurd is that if this were the case, you would spend infinity calculating the weight of the action(since it can have innumerable unforseen consequences, and realistically, you could not even sum them all, since you *can't* know them all(unless, of course, you happen to be some sort of omniscient deity and can know the exact cause of every motion in reality for all eternity?  If not, your argument makes no sense.)).  Consequences are inextricably linked together.  Either you're arbitrarily limiting what you claim is the right way to judge an action (by summing the consequences of it, and applying the weight to anyone involved in the action(s) which caused them) or you're confused and really don't understand what you're claiming.  Which is it?</blockquote>

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