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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lonely Tylenol" data-source="post: 3191681" data-attributes="member: 18549">Orphans saved?  Check.Good done?  Check.Chain devil did some evil?  Nope.I don't see where the means need being justified, considering that the means don't do any harm.  When one says, "the ends justify the means," they're saying, "a small wrong now will create a greater good later."   But if there's no wrong committed, then the means don't need justification.  Summoning a chain devil that can't do anything but what you tell it is essentially identical to summoning a modron that must likewise follow your commands.  It can't do any evil unless directed to, and if it doesn't do evil then there's nothing to justify.</blockquote>