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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Privateer" data-source="post: 1268066" data-attributes="member: 3299">What I find contradictory in the arguements here is arguing that while domination takes away someone's free will, killing them apparently doesn't.  At least with domination you have the chance to break free of the spell and resume your life; with death, well, living is harder (not impossible in a D&D world, with undead and raising, but harder).  I certainly know I can't excercise any will at all while decomposing.Also, I believe temporary domination is far better than torture.  You get the information either way, but in one you hurt someone horribly and in the other you don't.Permanent domination is tricky.  In my opinion, having an ogre wail on his compatriots is no more or less evil than just disintegrating the whole lot -- it has the same net outcome, but through a different method.  Keeping the ogre with you for months and breaking its will is a subject that should be addressed on a case-by-case basis for evil.Why are enchantments which don't cause physical pain normally thought of as more evil than flaying the skin off of your opponents?  I'd probably rather lack free will and have the chance to return to my original state than to have the moisture sucked from my flesh or my bones rended from my body.  YMMV, of course.</blockquote>