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Message: <blockquote data-quote="der_kluge" data-source="post: 1405236" data-attributes="member: 945">Hitler also raised the salaries of the police force for the first time in a long time.  And after they all loved him, he had them rounding up the Jewish people for him, and they didn't complain about it.Lessons to be learned.But, all this philosophical debate about "what evil is" has convinced me that the spell "detect evil" could never really be accurate.  I mean, if I've done evil things, and then decided I shouldn't do that any more, or I have nothing but evil plans, and do non-evil things to raise funds to execute my evil plans, but I've never done anything evil, or whatever.It raises the question of free will.  I mean, using the example of the pestilence god follower.  I could come up with this idea that poisoning the well of a village would be a good way to win favor with the pestilence god.  But, I don't have enough money to buy the poison, so I work for several years as a cooper's apprentice and stash away a few coppers here, and a silver piece there until I have a decent enough amount of money to buy the poison I need to poison the well.  So, I go out, and I purchase the poison from a shady dealer, and under the cover a new moon, I stand in the middle of the village, with my bottle of poison in my hand, and I decide that I just cant do it.  I can't go through with my plan, and instead I toss the bottle aside, and go back to bed.Was I ever evil?  Was I evil when I purchased the bottle of poison?  Was I evil when I worked as a cooper's apprentice?The spell detect evil seems to be a bit of a divination, scrying, fortune-telling thing all in one fail swoop.  I think there is a reason WoTC dropped the "Know Alignment" spell.  I don't think I would be out of line to just completely remove detect evil, etc., from my game.I've never really liked it, now that I think about.  Paladins are always, "I detect evil, what do I get?" when they enter a bar, or when speaking to the king and his counsel, or whatever.  Never liked that.  I think I just might remove it.</blockquote>

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