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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 872405" data-attributes="member: 259">Absolutely different play styles, and if you can see that that's all it comes down to (i.e., it's not that we're narrowminded, lack creativity, etc.), we have no disagreement.I will say that if I play in a world in which there are adequate prisons for dealing with the bad guys, and if taking the time to transport the bad guys to prison isn't going to endanger the lives of innocents, I'd consider it a borderline evil act not to take the bad guys to prison.  However, I've never once played in such a campaign:  on the contrary, unless I were playing a member of law enforcement, I wouldn't have much fun in such a campaign.  Why, after all, bother bringing villains to justice if the established law enforcement is more efficient at doing so?If I ever encounter a bad guy who I think will reason this way, then (assuming I'm playing a good character), I'll do my damnedest not to kill them.  A character in one game I play in has just signed away her autonomy in a desperate effort to save the lives of two demon-possessed villains:  she can't accept that the humans were responsible for the deaths they caused, so she can't kill them, and instead found a powerful group that will attempt an exorcism in exchange for her lifelong loyalty to the group.  Believe me, I know the fun of playing a character who pursues redemption.However, there are plenty of bad guys who aren't going to reason like you suggest, and indeed it'd be folly to expect them to do so.  Instead, they'll think, "Sucker who humiliated me is gonna go down!" and get their revenge on you at the next possible occasion.  Good guys aren't the only ones who know how to slit the throats of sleeping enemies.  Faced with the standard stupid-sadist mentality of a hill giant, I would certainly not let the giant free on the assumption that it saw the error of its ways.  Once it's attacked me (or worse, attacked an innocent), unless it demonstrates its epiphany tout de suite, it's gonna go down.And that's what I was trying to get at before.  It may be safer for your soul to let them go free, but it'll be a lot safer for everyone else if you kill them.  (Again, I'm assuming that they've committed heinous acts in the past, and that you have no reason to believe they'll change their ways -- if you think there's a good chance for them to reform, that's different).IMC, a character so concerned with her soul's purity that she'd risk the lives of innocent people to protect her purity would not be considered very good; instead, she'd be considered dangerously naive and selfish, narcissistic.  Borderline evil.Cute quote.  If the quote applied, it would say, "An enemy WHO WILL KILL INNOCENT PEOPLE deserves no mercy.  Mercy is for the INNOCENT.  A man KILLS INNOCENT PEOPLE, he is the enemy.  An enemy WHO WILL KILL INNOCENT PEOPLE deserves no mercy."Daniel</blockquote>

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