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<blockquote data-quote="Sejs" data-source="post: 2775930" data-attributes="member: 4910">Common misperception of alignment, actually.&nbsp; Good characters are perfectly capable of performing evil acts without losing their alignment.&nbsp; Here's the deal, however: don't make a habbit of it, or you are at risk. Essentially, a single action does not an alignment make, but regular and repeated actions do.Outside of paladins, who have special rules, a good character can torture a prisoner for interrogation purposes.&nbsp; The character, by their nature, however, would find the very act distasteful.&nbsp; They wouldn't enjoy it.&nbsp; It's the kind of thing that'd likely to cause the character to have a moral crisis, or at the very least, some degree of internal contemplation.Conversely, a neutral person could do it if there was an actual need for it and an evil person could do it just for the hell of it.&nbsp; Generally speaking, torture with a purpose that's necessary could be construed as neutral.&nbsp; But enjoying torture? That's right smack on into capital 'e' Evil territory.&nbsp; Real textboox villain stuff.Edit/Cairification:&nbsp; Good characters can torture, but doing so is never a good act regardless of the reasons.&nbsp; It's bad.&nbsp; Possibly (and in fact very likely) evil.&nbsp; However, good character are capable of performing evil acts the same as anyone else.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sejs, post: 2775930, member: 4910"] Common misperception of alignment, actually. Good characters are perfectly capable of performing evil acts without losing their alignment. Here's the deal, however: don't make a habbit of it, or you are at risk. Essentially, a single action does not an alignment make, but regular and repeated actions do. Outside of paladins, who have special rules, a good character [i]can[/i] torture a prisoner for interrogation purposes. The character, by their nature, however, would find the very act distasteful. They wouldn't enjoy it. It's the kind of thing that'd likely to cause the character to have a moral crisis, or at the very least, some degree of internal contemplation. Conversely, a neutral person could do it if there was an actual need for it and an evil person could do it just for the hell of it. Generally speaking, torture with a purpose that's necessary could be construed as neutral. But enjoying torture? That's right smack on into capital 'e' Evil territory. Real textboox villain stuff. Edit/Cairification: Good characters can torture, but doing so is never a good act regardless of the reasons. It's bad. Possibly (and in fact very likely) evil. However, good character are capable of performing evil acts the same as anyone else. [/QUOTE]

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