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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreenTengu" data-source="post: 6917942" data-attributes="member: 6777454">Let's see here...Let's say the PCs were as much in the "right" as possible.The PCs were at a bank and someone attempts to rob it. The PCs attack the robbers and there is a big fight. The security guard comes running in, pulls out his gun and tells everyone to stand the hell down because at that point he doesn't know who are the robbers and who are the vigilantes.The PCs then beat up the guard too and when they have him down and surrendering, they shoot him in the head.And here you are playing defense lawyer for the person who shot the security guard in the head for doing his job-- claiming extenuating circumstances and using special pleading to try to justify it.What I am saying is that if it was an NPC Orc who had taken that action, you would not hesitate to label him guilty of being evil and enact the death penalty.Killing the law enforcement who are trying to keep the peace in an act of vengeance or power just because you were, potentially mislabeled, a miscreant is not just Chaotic-- it is evil. A Chaotic good character may have chosen not to fight at all or at least fight only until the authority trying to intervene can be spoken to and negotiated with.And, yes, a bank guard and a bouncer are in fact equivalent-- both are private security hired to protect a place where crimes are likely to occur. Even if you have all the respect in the world for one institution and none for the other, the jobs are functionally and ethically equivalent.</blockquote>

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