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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 2793855" data-attributes="member: 707">Are you quoting from the wikipedia?As I've been taught, a moral dilemma is facing a difficult situation and being forced to determine what the moral choice is.  i.e. you have to examine and define your own moral stance in a way that most of us don't think about very often.  i.e. your child is dying and a certain doctor can save him.  Is it morally acceptable to threaten the doctor's life, or his family's, to get him to perform a life-saving surgery that he refuses to do, because you lack the money to pay him?  There are certainly two bad things going on here.  On the one hand, your child could die.  On the other hand, you'd be threatening another person's life.  The answer to the dilemma lies in your own (or your PCs) morality.  Some might say that it's morally acceptable to defend your child's life, even if it means threatening another's.  Others would suggest that others have less of a moral imperative to help you, than you have to not hurt them.In any case, the key point is that there is an answer to a moral dilemma.  It lies in your own moral code.Now let's look at another example.  You are the father of two daughters whom you love very much.  Both of them are drowning in the river, and you can only save one.  Whom do you save?This isn't a moral dilemma.  There is no right answer.  Your moral code does not come into play.  You're just screwed.Look at the scenario offered in the OP.  The evil wizard is protecting a town from being destroyed.  So you can leave the evil wizard be (allowing him to kill others, enslave souls, what have you,) or destroy the evil wizard, which leads to the destruction of the town.  Where is the moral choice here?  What are you choosing between?  In either case, lots of people die, regardless of your moral stance.</blockquote>

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