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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 948016" data-attributes="member: 1656">I strongly disagree.Someone can have an evil alignment without being EVIL.Pettiness, spite, greed, jealousy, arrogance, viciousness, and a tendency to kick kittens could all be considered evil traits.In the average person, there are redeeming qualities like love, charity, conscience, mercy, and so forth that balance those evil traits.  But in a person with few to none of the "good" qualities, and several of the "evil" qualities, his alignment will tend towards evil, even though he isn't EVIL.If someone is miserly, fantasises about orchestrating some emergency requiring his brother to leave town in order to sleep with his wife (although never actually puts any of his plans into practice), and has been known to kick the occasional servant who doesn't call him 'Sir' fast enough, in my opinion he will register on a Detect Evil spell.  He is a creature of evil alignment - he will show up as "faint" evil if 5th level or less, "moderate" evil otherwise.Do you really think his transgressions are a license to pull out the Holy Avenger?What happened to mercy?  Where's the belief in the chance for redemption?Mindless slaughter on the basis of alignment rather than actions is not Lawful, and it's not Good.-Hyp.</blockquote>