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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 9535713" data-attributes="member: 42856">If the afterlife for Evil-aligned people exists and is really an eternity of torment, I think a moral case can be made that converting people to Good by the sword and them killing them is a Good act. It ensures they get an eternity of maximum happiness, just losing a temporary state called life that is inconvenient and temporary. It would be like curing them from the illness called "being alive". What kind of parent would let their child suffer life and not snuff them out at birth instead (after doing the proper rites to ensure they are Good aligned), sending them to an eternity of happiness WITHOUT the temporary trials and difficulties of life (especially if their prospect is being a peasant living in squalor earning 1sp a day at best, being eatan by a wandering monster at worst)? And if killing deprives someone of the Good afterlife, then it would be truly altruistic to kill people for their own good at the price of their own afterlife. They'd drop to Neutral but sometimes people do Good for Good's sake, which in this case is killing people en masse.The demonstrable existence that life is a temporary thing compared to the eternity later would change our approach on morality and life a lot.</blockquote>