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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deset Gled" data-source="post: 4137919" data-attributes="member: 7808">Picking a fight with someone who is otherwise neutral because you "just didn't like them" is both evil and chaotic.  IMHO, turning a non-lethal combat into a lethal one because you cannot win a non-lethal combat (and there are no real negative consequences of losing the combat) is also evil.  Pride is generally not an acceptable reason for murder unless there is a strong cultural background behind it, in which case there is normally a strict procedure that must be followed.  Some cultures would actually consider pride to be a sin of deadly proportions.Here, there PCs are torn between two "good" sides (the mother and the Arbitor).  Picking one side over the other is neither good nor evil.  However, using violence as the first possible way of dealing with the situation (instead of being diplomatic, stealing the child, going to the king or other higher power for arbitration) is tending toward the evil side of things.  Desacrating a body for no purpose other than your own enjoyment is definetally evil.  Unless there is some tradition of beheading and burning people instead of having their bodies buried or returned to their families, I would consider this evil.Also, killing an officer of the law that you follow, regardless of whether it is done for evil purposes or not, is chaotic.</blockquote>