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<blockquote data-quote="Thurbane" data-source="post: 3660401" data-attributes="member: 43273">It raises some very inmteresting issues of &quot;magical rehabilitation&quot;:1. Alignment is only one component of a beings behaviour. Some violent criminals might be neutral or good but suffer from mental illness. In a magcial world, they might have even comitted crimes under magical compulsion or possession. Along with the Helm of Opposite alignment, I would imagine you would need liberal use of Atonement and Heal spells, along with Detect Thoughts to check if the rehabilitation is successful. Throw in Mind Fog as well, to help Will saves fail.2. Cost - does the government pass on the high cost of these magics to the opulation? The lower levels of society might rather take their chance with rabid murderers than have to pay a new &quot;rehabilitation&quot; tax.3. Reversal - most of the rehabilitating spells can be undone, in one form or another.4. Victims - the victims of violent crimes, and/or their families might not think that rehabilitation is enough: they might demand life incarceration, or execution.5. Moral backlash - the flipside of point 4, some people might view using mind and ethos altering magics on people, even convicted criminals, to be morally reprehensible, especially Chaotic aligned types....all things considered, I think it might cause more problems than it solves, but it certainly makes some interesting food for thought.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thurbane, post: 3660401, member: 43273"] It raises some very inmteresting issues of "magical rehabilitation": 1. Alignment is only one component of a beings behaviour. Some violent criminals might be neutral or good but suffer from mental illness. In a magcial world, they might have even comitted crimes under magical compulsion or possession. Along with the Helm of Opposite alignment, I would imagine you would need liberal use of Atonement and Heal spells, along with Detect Thoughts to check if the rehabilitation is successful. Throw in Mind Fog as well, to help Will saves fail. 2. Cost - does the government pass on the high cost of these magics to the opulation? The lower levels of society might rather take their chance with rabid murderers than have to pay a new "rehabilitation" tax. 3. Reversal - most of the rehabilitating spells can be undone, in one form or another. 4. Victims - the victims of violent crimes, and/or their families might not think that rehabilitation is enough: they might demand life incarceration, or execution. 5. Moral backlash - the flipside of point 4, some people might view using mind and ethos altering magics on people, even convicted criminals, to be morally reprehensible, especially Chaotic aligned types. ...all things considered, I think it might cause more problems than it solves, but it certainly makes some interesting food for thought. [/QUOTE]

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