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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olgar Shiverstone" data-source="post: 1691268" data-attributes="member: 5868">What about in a moral system based on "greatest good"?  Weigh the balance, and whichever course of action provides the greatest benefit to the greatest number is the course followed.  No emotion required -- it's a cost/benefit equation.  It would be different than what we traditionally think of as morality -- it redefines right and wrong in some circumstances.  In many cases "right" decisions made under that system are what we call "good" or "moral", but many right decisions could also be equally "evil".- Do I derail the speeding lightning train to save a child in its path?  No -- save the passengers, smear the child.  Probably a "good" or "right" decision in both the traditional and this alternate morality.- Do I try to cure the plague, knowing that it will continue to spread and kill people while I work on the cure, or just kill off those infected, knwing that by doing so I'll stop the plague?  Probably "right" or "good" to kill the infected in this alternate morality, but "evil" in traditional morality.The directions you can take with the concept are interesting if you've willing to be a bit flexible.  (What I've proposed is a version of the moral system Heinlein discussed in Starship Troopers, which can be quite thought provoking, if also a bit disturbing.)----The warforged-as-Rambo thing had me thinking all day.  I'm tempted to write an adventure around it -- like First Blood, but with the PCs as the cops ...</blockquote>

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