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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9364861" data-attributes="member: 42582">Well, I didn't say that. I just pointed out that, among academic moral philosophers in mainstream English language philosophy departments, that seems to be the most common view.l have my own views on this, but this thread isn't the place for them.The absolute authority would have to be in the fiction, giving a command to the fictional characters, so that disobedience to that command was a wrongful act.But the command has to be rational in some sense (maybe a Job-like story puts pressure on this? but I don't see much like that in people's accounts of their FRPGing).  I think there's a difference between imagining nonsense, like the Hulk or Storm, and asserting an immediate contradiction like that the circle is square. You can go a long way with Hulk or Storm without having to ask the questions about their biochemistry which have no sensible answer; you can't get very far with a square circle, though!The equivalent of the Hulk or Storm in FRPG morality, I think, is stuff like relaxing the moral constraints on permissible violence. Or placing more weight on the importance of personal honour than is really plausible, while at the same time turning a blind eye to social hierarchies which very few contemporary people would argue are morally defensible. (We see all these things with the classic paladin.)</blockquote>