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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Will" data-source="post: 1850248" data-attributes="member: 5566">I would say raising dead as animate degenerate forms of the once-living is a mockery of life, and it's this that's evil. As others have noted, there doesn't seem to be any other signs that using negative energy is distinctly evil.I'd rate this up there with defiling the statuary or temples of good gods, no matter what the excuse. You could have an elaborate, good reason to do this (or torture, or whatever). Doesn't deny the evil of the act, but on the whole the person can be non-evil (or even good).That someone might feel that is the best way to accomplish a task doesn't matter. A paladin should avoid people who go beat up local merchants and steal their money, even if it's terribly convenient to do so.I suspect a paladin would also have some problems with the legality of such tasks, but raise dead doesn't have the Chaotic descriptor. Presumably, it doesn't violate the laws of the cosmos significantly more than, say, resurrection.Granted, I try to cleave to a fairly book-standard view of alignment. I think it comes down to 'how many evil acts can someone perform before being an evil character.'While a paladin will object to evil acts by colleagues, the only people she will refuse to hang out with at all is characters who are evil.</blockquote>