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<blockquote data-quote="Mal Malenkirk" data-source="post: 4230942" data-attributes="member: 834">It's only banditry because the Usurper says so.&nbsp; Once you win, it becomes heroic resistance and you get medals for it.&nbsp; And no one would dare call you a bandit.&nbsp; Robin Hood in most legend was fighting for the rightful ruler against the usurper.&nbsp; If he was truly chaotic, he would have kept 'stealing from the rich to give to the poor' after Richard resumed his rule.&nbsp; Otherwise, why not?&nbsp; The poor are still poor, the rich are still rich.&nbsp; But of course he knows these actions would have been undefendable under a legitimate government.&nbsp; He isn't nearly chaotic.&nbsp; He wasn't doing the bandit schtick by choice and he did so by maintaining as many of the knightly code as he could.No, defending community and family is a normal human impulse.&nbsp; Just about anyone able to overcome his/her fear of death would do it.&nbsp; If you do overcome your fear of death in order to defend your own, does it make you good?&nbsp; No, it makes you courageous.&nbsp;After the war ended, some resistance fighter and soldiers who fought the nazis then commited various crimes during the course of normal society, including fairly evil ones such as abusing their spouse and rape.&nbsp; Indeed their lawyers sometime invoked their past service as attenuating circumstance.&nbsp; How is that possible?&nbsp; Easy : Being courageous and being morally good are two different thing.&nbsp; Hopefully you can be both but they aren't connected.&nbsp; And I got to say it's very naive to believe otherwise.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mal Malenkirk, post: 4230942, member: 834"] It's only banditry because the Usurper says so. Once you win, it becomes heroic resistance and you get medals for it. And no one would dare call you a bandit. Robin Hood in most legend was fighting for the rightful ruler against the usurper. If he was truly chaotic, he would have kept 'stealing from the rich to give to the poor' after Richard resumed his rule. Otherwise, why not? The poor are still poor, the rich are still rich. But of course he knows these actions would have been undefendable under a legitimate government. He isn't nearly chaotic. He wasn't doing the bandit schtick by choice and he did so by maintaining as many of the knightly code as he could. No, defending community and family is a normal human impulse. Just about anyone able to overcome his/her fear of death would do it. If you do overcome your fear of death in order to defend your own, does it make you good? No, it makes you courageous. After the war ended, some resistance fighter and soldiers who fought the nazis then commited various crimes during the course of normal society, including fairly evil ones such as abusing their spouse and rape. Indeed their lawyers sometime invoked their past service as attenuating circumstance. How is that possible? Easy : Being courageous and being morally good are two different thing. Hopefully you can be both but they aren't connected. And I got to say it's very naive to believe otherwise. [/QUOTE]

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