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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 257097" data-attributes="member: 2067">Eh....Like the Iron DM said, there's too many of them. Random killing and cruelty create more of the same...the only way to help the cause of good is to treat even the evil with honor and respect.You start forbidding entrace to the city on the basis of alignment, and you not only have people sneaking into the city (LE or even LN types would likely set up underground railroads and forge documents), you'd also have one mighty small city...and the moment you get attacked by the Orcs and a few people get killed off, welp, there goes your town. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Besides, even if nobody evil or chaotic is let in, there's nothing stopping them from being born there. Alignment isn't genetic, after all. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />IMC, I ask people to first tell me what their character believes, without using alignment terms. Then, I assign an alignment based on those beliefs. Usually, I don't even tell them what alignment they have. Alignment is defined by intention, and not by action...if you forment a rebellion in an ordered way, you're Lawful. If you kill innocents but believe that nobody in inherently innocent, you're Good or Neutral. Finally, the detect spells do reveal your alignment, but you don't know what affects it.Basically, I do it as it may be in the Real World. There is an absolute Good, Evil, Chaos, Law, and Neutrality. You, however, don't know what those absolutes are, and must rely on guessing or messages from divine bieings to tell you what they are. And the messeages of the Celestials and the Fiends contradict....I know what the absolutes are. You do not. You have a relation to those absolutes, but the only way you can tell it is by the detect spells, and even then, just because something's evil doesn't mean you should kill it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Remember, someone who is Lawful need not be Lawful 24-7, all the time. They can do a few  Chaotic things and still retain lawful alignment. Good people can do evil, and evil people aren't always looking to kill and maim people.</blockquote>

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