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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DarkMaster" data-source="post: 1404658" data-attributes="member: 16362">A good person will ultimatly perform good action same for an evil person. When I gave the example of the paladin killing his wife murderer, it was more than a one event action. He completly lost his belief in the current law system and decide to make his own law, thus reverting to chaos. This change becomes so powerfull that it affect his whole approach on life not only that single event. But it could have been in an excess of rage, nobody is perfect, then for a short moment he deviated from his own line of conduct. In that case that doesn't make him chaotic. Because once the rage is over he fully realised his mistake and starts to repent in a way appropriate for him, ten days of prayer, auto flagelation whatever. As a DM I don't expect my player to play 100% their alignement 90% is reasonable for player with classes that don't depend severely on alignement like barbarians, 99% for paladin and the likes and maybe 75% for others. I don't tell that to my player. Humans are not perfect and I don't expect the PC to be either. Good person can have evil taught as evil person can have good taught. the example of the serial killer you are giving is the perfect example of an evil lying to himself because he was brainwashed by some religious order that this was the way to go. he is lying to himself, his alignement is still evil but he doesn't know. And as soon a temptation arise it's true nature surge back. there is an expression in french that say. Deny your natural and it will come back running.Tell me frankly do you know what is your alignement, I personally have no clue. If I look at my action I could say I am good but if I start to look at the real motivation behind all my action then I start doubting <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />.</blockquote>

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