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<blockquote data-quote="Kaodi" data-source="post: 3661210" data-attributes="member: 1231">Well, for one, the repenting person can choose to fake it.Prison is not really designed to adjust people from being &quot; evil &quot; to &quot; good &quot; . For one thing, not everyone in prison is &quot; evil &quot; . There are a crap load of neutral people in there as well, and probably even the odd good person with chaotic tendancies, hehehe... As I was saying, any alignment shift that is encouraged by prison is mostly limited to a subset of seemingly lawful conditions. However, one does not have to give up being a free spirit to stay out of jail, they have to give up crime. Or, get smarter.There is nothing in prison that is actually forcing anyone to change their entire outlook on life. Perhaps, long periods of hardship and reflection may encourage this, but we have ample evidence that just as often, or more often, they do not. Now, compare that to being able to instantly turn Stalin into a hippie... Or... If someone charges you with a knife, and you manage to disarm and subdue them, self defense would not be considered an evil act. However, if you were armed with a machine gun, and you ripped them to shreds, then &quot; self defense &quot; would be an evil act. Everything assuming that this were a random street encounter in a more or less civilized society. Similarly, if sending a person to prison is disarming and subduing them, then hitting them with a Helm of Opposite Alignment is practically ripping them apart. Perhaps not as permanent as killing them, but neither would cutting off all of their limbs and replacing them with fully function futuristic prosthetics, yet that would be considered quite evil as well. Yet, that is essentially what you are doing with the Helm of Opposite Alignment, ripping off their mental limbs and replacing them with something else.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kaodi, post: 3661210, member: 1231"] Well, for one, the repenting person can choose to fake it. Prison is not really designed to adjust people from being " evil " to " good " . For one thing, not everyone in prison is " evil " . There are a crap load of neutral people in there as well, and probably even the odd good person with chaotic tendancies, hehehe... As I was saying, any alignment shift that is encouraged by prison is mostly limited to a subset of seemingly lawful conditions. However, one does not have to give up being a free spirit to stay out of jail, they have to give up crime. Or, get smarter. There is nothing in prison that is actually forcing anyone to change their entire outlook on life. Perhaps, long periods of hardship and reflection may encourage this, but we have ample evidence that just as often, or more often, they do not. Now, compare that to being able to instantly turn Stalin into a hippie... Or... If someone charges you with a knife, and you manage to disarm and subdue them, self defense would not be considered an evil act. However, if you were armed with a machine gun, and you ripped them to shreds, then " self defense " would be an evil act. Everything assuming that this were a random street encounter in a more or less civilized society. Similarly, if sending a person to prison is disarming and subduing them, then hitting them with a Helm of Opposite Alignment is practically ripping them apart. Perhaps not as permanent as killing them, but neither would cutting off all of their limbs and replacing them with fully function futuristic prosthetics, yet that would be considered quite evil as well. Yet, that is essentially what you are doing with the Helm of Opposite Alignment, ripping off their mental limbs and replacing them with something else. [/QUOTE]

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