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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7924046" data-attributes="member: 4937">Yeah, that's an interesting scenario. I'm struggling to think of any real world morality system that could give you guidance in that one. There just aren't any good real world parallels, and to the extent that there are analogies I really don't feel comfortable making them.My gut feeling is that the problem here is that it doesn't matter what the motive actually is, the Witch is going to eventually enjoy the killing part and things will start running down hill from there.   At the very least, what the witch is doing is an act of Hubris - it's a decision that is way above her station.   Between violence and hubris, it's hard to imagine the fruits of this labor are going to be good.  The other way that I can see this going highly wrong is that it's probably the "soul" that makes the alignment, so it could be that all she's actually doing is making evil members of the "good race".  On the other hand, perhaps since it's children she's doing it with, they haven't really fixed their alignment yet, and not yet being depraved and being reincarnated as members of the new race they are likely to turn out good (assuming that they are raised with care).  That probably depends on the "evil race".   Something that is only 'sometimes' or 'usually' evil might could get converted to this process, where the 'always' races probably couldn't.  And it's possible in a two axis morality system that this is Chaotic, and "right" and "wrong" aren't the key elements of it.   All of which is to say that the whole thing gives me a little bit of the "willies" just with how alien the precepts are, and how weird things get if you pursue some aspects of the setting to their logical conclusions.</blockquote>

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