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<blockquote data-quote="Greg Benage" data-source="post: 6909407" data-attributes="member: 93631">Like the student lounges in freshman dormitories, I'm not certain the existence of argument on the forum disproves the claim. But I'd be satisfied if anyone could point me to a real-world historical example of any society in which a civilian killing a defenseless person in a bar would not have been considered an evil act. Beyond that, I'd even be satisfied with someone making a rigorous philosophical argument for why this act was not willful, harmful, and morally unjustified (i.e. evil); or even a rules argument that it isn't evil based on the alignment definitions in D&amp;D 5e. The &quot;that's just your opinion, man&quot; bromides aren't very persuasive to me.Thing is, I've played D&amp;D in GTA murder-hobo mode and had a good time. I have absolutely no problem with that kind of game. I hope the insistence in some quarters that killing defenseless persons doesn't constitute an evil act is really just defensiveness on behalf of that playstyle. In any case, I've said my piece, and then some, so I'm done.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Greg Benage, post: 6909407, member: 93631"] Like the student lounges in freshman dormitories, I'm not certain the existence of argument on the forum disproves the claim. But I'd be satisfied if anyone could point me to a real-world historical example of any society in which a civilian killing a defenseless person in a bar would not have been considered an evil act. Beyond that, I'd even be satisfied with someone making a rigorous philosophical argument for why this act was [I]not[/I] willful, harmful, and morally unjustified (i.e. evil); or even a rules argument that it isn't evil based on the alignment definitions in D&D 5e. The "that's just your opinion, man" bromides aren't very persuasive to me. Thing is, I've played D&D in GTA murder-hobo mode and had a good time. I have absolutely no problem with that kind of game. I [I]hope[/I] the insistence in some quarters that killing defenseless persons doesn't constitute an evil act is really just defensiveness on behalf of that playstyle. In any case, I've said my piece, and then some, so I'm done. [/QUOTE]

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