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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 809365" data-attributes="member: 2067"><p>Because for a Chaotic Good person, freedom is as important as doing the Right Thing. In fact, they're most often synonymous. Keeping them tied up and helpless wouldn't be the Right Thing to Do because it deprives them of any choices of their own. It totally disintegrates their individual rites, and makes the enforcer become an agent of outside law -- something that a person who's concerned with Freedom wouldn't want. You're no better than a piggy policeman if you keep them tied up, and since that represents everythign that's WRONG with society, you naturally wouldn't want to do it.</p><p></p><p>It's important to a Chaotic Good person to preserve the freedoms of all involved. The fact that the theives surrendered means that they've already reconsidered their lives at least enough to throw themselves on a stranger's mercy. Taking prisoners means that they'll be put in a safe place until the conflict dies down, and they can be released again, ostensibly not to do the same thing. If they do steal again, than that is their free choice, just as it is the free choice of the town they steal from to hire some less ethical adventurers to do away with the problem...this is why Evil Adventurers exist. There are some things that towns want done that Good Guys just wouldn't like doing.</p><p></p><p>Also, if the theives repeated the strategy, they'd become known for it, and it wouldn't work.</p><p></p><p>A Good person would allow mercy, and a Chaotic Good person would allow mercy individually, and preserve their inalienable right to choose to do the wrong thing, until the chooser fails to repent (which effectively happens the next time they try it, or the time after that). To a Chaotic Good person, those individuals that may be killed due to this one person's wrong choice are unavoidable -- some will die. But They must live and die in freedom, not in bondage.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 809365, member: 2067"] Because for a Chaotic Good person, freedom is as important as doing the Right Thing. In fact, they're most often synonymous. Keeping them tied up and helpless wouldn't be the Right Thing to Do because it deprives them of any choices of their own. It totally disintegrates their individual rites, and makes the enforcer become an agent of outside law -- something that a person who's concerned with Freedom wouldn't want. You're no better than a piggy policeman if you keep them tied up, and since that represents everythign that's WRONG with society, you naturally wouldn't want to do it. It's important to a Chaotic Good person to preserve the freedoms of all involved. The fact that the theives surrendered means that they've already reconsidered their lives at least enough to throw themselves on a stranger's mercy. Taking prisoners means that they'll be put in a safe place until the conflict dies down, and they can be released again, ostensibly not to do the same thing. If they do steal again, than that is their free choice, just as it is the free choice of the town they steal from to hire some less ethical adventurers to do away with the problem...this is why Evil Adventurers exist. There are some things that towns want done that Good Guys just wouldn't like doing. Also, if the theives repeated the strategy, they'd become known for it, and it wouldn't work. A Good person would allow mercy, and a Chaotic Good person would allow mercy individually, and preserve their inalienable right to choose to do the wrong thing, until the chooser fails to repent (which effectively happens the next time they try it, or the time after that). To a Chaotic Good person, those individuals that may be killed due to this one person's wrong choice are unavoidable -- some will die. But They must live and die in freedom, not in bondage. [/QUOTE]
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