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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maerdwyn" data-source="post: 1050003" data-attributes="member: 835">I'm going to take a slightly different position, in part based on Buttercup's goblin story, which demontrates that in her world, the alignment of a humanoid (or at least the ability of a humanoid to civily fuction in society) isn't necessarily defined by race.  If kobolds are not inherently evil, killing what would we would have to assume are, thus-far, innocent babes would be evil if not for the euthanasia aspect of the situation.  Since the party had no cure for the diseased infants, killing them would seem to be the merciful option.However, the party did not have any cure for the people in town who were stricken by the plague at that point, either, and the party wasn't euthanizing any of them.  Given that the party had every hope, possibly even the expectation that they would find and remove the source of the plague and cure the townspeople(else, why accept the mission in the first place?), they had the same possibility of soon possessing the means to cure the kobold infants.Granted, keeping the kobold babies alive would have been difficult and inconvenient, but they certainly could have tried to keep the babies safe until either all hope was lost or a cure found.  Not to do so was not a choice based on mercy, but expedience.While I would put this on the evil end of neutral, I would say it would only be a problem for character's whose religions preached against this sort of thing - for example, if the cleric followed a god of healing, I would say he was in some trouble.</blockquote>

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