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<blockquote data-quote="vulcan_idic" data-source="post: 1923759" data-attributes="member: 19615"><p>I'm not sure I actually believe in these things or not...&nbsp; but it serves as a good case for argument, even if it's just to play Devil's Advocate.&nbsp; And in a world where things *are* black and white and murder - at least in the PHB and BoVD - is concretely listed as Evil, it simply begs the question it seems to me.&nbsp; Or, to phrase it as a logical proof: &quot;Murder is Evil. (PHB, BoVD) Murder is the crime of intentionally killing a person. (Cambridge Dictionary Online (because I'm not up to paying for the OED online)) Therefore a Paladin intentionally killing a person (whether or not the person is Evil or not is undefined) is an Evil act.&quot;&nbsp; I'm not sure I would apply such rigorous simplistic logic in reality...&nbsp; but if you want to apply simplistic black and white morality in your fantasy game this is the way it seems the logic plays itself out.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="vulcan_idic, post: 1923759, member: 19615"] I'm not sure I actually believe in these things or not... but it serves as a good case for argument, even if it's just to play Devil's Advocate. And in a world where things *are* black and white and murder - at least in the PHB and BoVD - is concretely listed as Evil, it simply begs the question it seems to me. Or, to phrase it as a logical proof: "Murder is Evil. (PHB, BoVD) Murder is the crime of intentionally killing a person. (Cambridge Dictionary Online (because I'm not up to paying for the OED online)) Therefore a Paladin intentionally killing a person (whether or not the person is Evil or not is undefined) is an Evil act." I'm not sure I would apply such rigorous simplistic logic in reality... but if you want to apply simplistic black and white morality in your fantasy game this is the way it seems the logic plays itself out. [/QUOTE]

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