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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 2894394" data-attributes="member: 19675">Military snipers kill for country.&nbsp; I've met a few...nice guys, to a man.&nbsp; Perhaps that has colored my viewpoint some.While killing is always evil according to the Bible, I'm enough of a pragmatist to at least seriously consider that killing one human can be the lesser of 2 evils (such as assassinating a human who is a madman trying to start an &quot;unjust&quot; war*), especially if there are exigent circumstances and my head (or that of someone I love) is on the metaphorical &quot;chopping block.&quot;&nbsp; Of course, one can never know ahead of time whether events subsequent to the killing will actually be better- consider the episode of Red Dwarf in which the protagonists accidentally save JFK from being killed, thus setting in motion events that led to the ruination of America.&nbsp; They had to get Kennedy to kill himself (by taking him back in time to be the gunman on the grassy knoll) to set history aright.Thus, IMHO, in the game sense, assassins can have a wide variety of alignments, depending upon motivation...though LG would be a stretch.*as opposed to a &quot;just&quot; war, as defined by people like Von Clausewitz, Howard Zinn, Rabbi Block and others- roughly analogous to killing in self defense, but on a mass scale.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 2894394, member: 19675"] Military snipers kill for country. I've met a few...nice guys, to a man. Perhaps that has colored my viewpoint some. While killing is always evil according to the Bible, I'm enough of a pragmatist to at least seriously consider that killing one human can be the lesser of 2 evils (such as assassinating a human who is a madman trying to start an "unjust" war*), especially if there are exigent circumstances and my head (or that of someone I love) is on the metaphorical "chopping block." Of course, one can never know ahead of time whether events subsequent to the killing will actually be better- consider the episode of Red Dwarf in which the protagonists accidentally save JFK from being killed, thus setting in motion events that led to the ruination of America. They had to get Kennedy to kill himself (by taking him back in time to be the gunman on the grassy knoll) to set history aright. Thus, IMHO, in the game sense, assassins can have a wide variety of alignments, depending upon motivation...though LG would be a stretch. *as opposed to a "just" war, as defined by people like Von Clausewitz, Howard Zinn, Rabbi Block and others- roughly analogous to killing in self defense, but on a mass scale. [/QUOTE]

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