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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Abisashi" data-source="post: 1845602" data-attributes="member: 15334">Exalted ~ Deontology.Kant presented the case of the inquisitive murderer, which goes something like:Bob is upstairs in your house, and a guy knocks on your door."Hi, I'm looking for Bob so that I can murder him. Is he here?"Kant says that you should tell the murderer that Bob is there because you have a duty to not lie. You can't know what will happen, and you aren't responsible for the murderer. Perhaps he will redeem his ways. (modern deontologists suggest that conflicting duties or the like allow you to not tell the murderer, but that's besides the point.)Now, it might seem that Kant must therefore be a pacifist, but he wasn't at all and thought that war was acceptable in the right situations. I'd say Exalted characters should be deontologists. Exalted philosophy might have slightly different rules, but it matches well to the idea of Duties and the idea that "The ends do not justify the means."As for those of you who feel that this leads to silly conclusions, I agree. My sig once read, "Never let morality keep you from doing that which is right."Utilitarianism for life.</blockquote>