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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Merlion" data-source="post: 4040664" data-attributes="member: 10397">I disagree. D&D is pretty much the only thing I've ever seen use this definition of a "Good person."  In real life, by the definitions used by most people, most people are good people. Because as I said, being basically a good person doesnt have to include being a crusader or spending most of your time going out of your way to help others...and also because in my experience most people will go out of their way to help others, to at least some extent. Its a matter of intentions and motivations. The person who is bad at keeping secrets isnt bad or evil if they arent setting out to do harm. However also eventually you hit the point of evil by indifference...even if you arent actively setting out to be malicious, if you know your causing harm and do it anyway, its much the same. This depends on the circumstances, and again on intentions. Someone joins the army because they want to defend their country, and ends up killing others in a war that is (or that as far as they know is) to further that end is not evil. However a person still has a responsability to use their own judgement. With most of the important stuff it shouldnt make much difference. I'm not a big believer in subjective right and wrong when it comes to major stuff....there are some things, such as ettiquette and relationship rules and stuff that vary, but otherwise its all pretty much the same. To me a character like that rides the line. What really makes the difference to me is the intention. Even if they enjoy the killing, if they understand that killing the innocent is wrong and refrain from doing so, I wouldnt necessarily call them unequivically evil.</blockquote>

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