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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AuraSeer" data-source="post: 281379" data-attributes="member: 1331">Oh, I thought of something else I want to add, unrelated to my previous post.You've told the player that killing helpless enemies is evil. He has a rationalization for why he thinks it's not. However, history and literature are replete with examples of evil people who no doubt thought their actions were justified.Here's a purely hypothetical situation: say there's a medical procedure that some people think is evil. A doctor makes her living performing that procedure. Some guy decides to put a stop to that, so he buys a sniper rifle and murders the doc. Either the doc or the guy could be evil; or maybe both, or neither. I'm sure both of them felt completely justified in their actions.Another hypothetical: say there's some kind of militant group that hates a certain nation. They want to strike at their enemy, but they're too weak to attack head on. So a bunch of idiots hijack a plane and fly it into a building, killing themselves and thousands of innocent civilians. To do something like that, they'd have to be awfully sure of their own goodness, but I doubt the rest of the world would agree.My point (and I do have one) is this. Nobody wakes up in the morning and says, "I think I'll go out and be evil." Most people think they have valid reasons for doing what they do. So even though the PC doesn't think he's evil, you should feel free to flip his alignment to CE as soon as you think it's appropriate.</blockquote>

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