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<blockquote data-quote="GrahamWills" data-source="post: 7817850" data-attributes="member: 75787"><p>I read it as a choice: The other person dies, and you live ... or you both die. Not a simple swap lives. For a lawful character it makes perfect sense to swap one person's life for two. So a lawful good character is conflicted. Thus I would not say this is a definite no-no.</p><p></p><p>If the character was chaotic good, or even neutral good, maybe it would be an issue. But a lawful good character could easily look at this as a choosing between two bad options, and deciding, as a lawful character to pick the one that means that the most good will be achieved in the future.</p><p></p><p>Another way to look at it: Suppose the paladin were not choosing for his own life, but another's: A choice between A and B dying, or just B. Would you say they were wrong for picking "only B dies"? I think that's a hard decision.</p><p></p><p>Finally, even if it is just A or B, a lawful character might decide that since A is of more value to society, A might live in preference to B. For example, it is common in war to send someone to their death. Is that intrinsically evil? Should every president we have ever had be considered evil because they sent someone else to die when they themselves were safe? Is the captain in Das Boot evil because he asks for a volunteer to drown themselves saving the ship, because he did not do it himself, even though he is necessary to saving the lives of the rest of the crew?</p><p></p><p>I'd be careful of absolutes here. As another poster said, don't make it a moral issue. Instead just look at the god they serve and ask yourself what they would think. It's basically the FRP equivalent to a standard Christian morality question -- don't consider the intrinsic morality or try and work it out from ethical principles, just go with "What Would Jesus Do?". So ... what would Pelor do?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GrahamWills, post: 7817850, member: 75787"] I read it as a choice: The other person dies, and you live ... or you both die. Not a simple swap lives. For a lawful character it makes perfect sense to swap one person's life for two. So a lawful good character is conflicted. Thus I would not say this is a definite no-no. If the character was chaotic good, or even neutral good, maybe it would be an issue. But a lawful good character could easily look at this as a choosing between two bad options, and deciding, as a lawful character to pick the one that means that the most good will be achieved in the future. Another way to look at it: Suppose the paladin were not choosing for his own life, but another's: A choice between A and B dying, or just B. Would you say they were wrong for picking "only B dies"? I think that's a hard decision. Finally, even if it is just A or B, a lawful character might decide that since A is of more value to society, A might live in preference to B. For example, it is common in war to send someone to their death. Is that intrinsically evil? Should every president we have ever had be considered evil because they sent someone else to die when they themselves were safe? Is the captain in Das Boot evil because he asks for a volunteer to drown themselves saving the ship, because he did not do it himself, even though he is necessary to saving the lives of the rest of the crew? I'd be careful of absolutes here. As another poster said, don't make it a moral issue. Instead just look at the god they serve and ask yourself what they would think. It's basically the FRP equivalent to a standard Christian morality question -- don't consider the intrinsic morality or try and work it out from ethical principles, just go with "What Would Jesus Do?". So ... what would Pelor do? [/QUOTE]
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