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<blockquote data-quote="Starfox" data-source="post: 5514184" data-attributes="member: 2303">In Dragonstar I had cause to collide (somewhat) modern notions of law and ethics with fantasy reality. In general, undead there were illegal, their very existence a crime except in very special circumstances. Practically, they were disenfranchised, considered curses or living embodiments of the crime of turning them into undead. As legal nonentities it was permissible to destroy them. If you had enough life insurance, an agent would be dispatched to do exactly that so that you could be restored to life. Undead did not have the right to control any assets they had when alive.This is all pragmatic; dragons did not want an empire overrun by undead. Laws are not ethics. And of course there were exceptions, undead that were enfranchised. But if you were an undead entitled to be enfranchised, you still had so survive long enough for the law to recognize you - which might not be easy.I can see planets or habitats in Dragonstar dominated by undead, with very different laws, but these would be the exception. The Eleti, from Races of the Galaxy, are different in that they have no identifiable previous life - they can be said to be undead what were never alive. But we never had any Eleti in our game.On a completely different bent, I once played a Brujah cop in Vampire the Masquerade. He would still walk his beat, beating up and sucking the blood of criminals. He considered himself good and lawful, kind of a superhero beat cop.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Starfox, post: 5514184, member: 2303"] In Dragonstar I had cause to collide (somewhat) modern notions of law and ethics with fantasy reality. In general, undead there were illegal, their very existence a crime except in very special circumstances. Practically, they were disenfranchised, considered curses or living embodiments of the crime of turning them into undead. As legal nonentities it was permissible to destroy them. If you had enough life insurance, an agent would be dispatched to do exactly that so that you could be restored to life. Undead did not have the right to control any assets they had when alive. This is all pragmatic; dragons did not want an empire overrun by undead. Laws are not ethics. And of course there were exceptions, undead that were enfranchised. But if you were an undead entitled to be enfranchised, you still had so survive long enough for the law to recognize you - which might not be easy. I can see planets or habitats in Dragonstar dominated by undead, with very different laws, but these would be the exception. The Eleti, from Races of the Galaxy, are different in that they have no identifiable previous life - they can be said to be undead what were never alive. But we never had any Eleti in our game. On a completely different bent, I once played a Brujah cop in Vampire the Masquerade. He would still walk his beat, beating up and sucking the blood of criminals. He considered himself good and lawful, kind of a superhero beat cop. [/QUOTE]

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