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<blockquote data-quote="Whisper72" data-source="post: 1549731" data-attributes="member: 17339">Well.... there is a big diff between someone who is evil at heart and someone who has committed truly evil acts. Maybe this can be portrayed game-wise as a 'degree' of evilness, and then there is this threshold after which ppl who show a certain aura must have committed evil acts, and then it might be okay.On the other hand, if you think 'lawful' as part of LG in the sense as we know it now, then the adage of 'innocent until proven guilty' applies. Then the question becomes one of 'is a positive 'detect evil' enough / admissible evidence'? Maybe there needs to be a conclave of three beings who unanimously detect evil and interpret these readings in the same way??All this then comes down to the Law of the Land. In some lands it may be that the LG paladin will end up in jail and executed for killing a 'random evil person', even though the land where this happens is an inherently good country, but the Paladin did not stick to the law... he shoulda brought the guy in to the local authorities in stead of playing judge, jury and executioner in one...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Whisper72, post: 1549731, member: 17339"] Well.... there is a big diff between someone who is evil at heart and someone who has committed truly evil acts. Maybe this can be portrayed game-wise as a 'degree' of evilness, and then there is this threshold after which ppl who show a certain aura must have committed evil acts, and then it might be okay. On the other hand, if you think 'lawful' as part of LG in the sense as we know it now, then the adage of 'innocent until proven guilty' applies. Then the question becomes one of 'is a positive 'detect evil' enough / admissible evidence'? Maybe there needs to be a conclave of three beings who unanimously detect evil and interpret these readings in the same way?? All this then comes down to the Law of the Land. In some lands it may be that the LG paladin will end up in jail and executed for killing a 'random evil person', even though the land where this happens is an inherently good country, but the Paladin did not stick to the law... he shoulda brought the guy in to the local authorities in stead of playing judge, jury and executioner in one... [/QUOTE]

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