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<blockquote data-quote="Iron Sheep" data-source="post: 1918342" data-attributes="member: 4965">Essentially, the murderer has committed an Evil act.&nbsp; In the example, it is not premeditated in any sense, so it is probably a lesser Evil.&nbsp; One possible way that a Good character in the farmer's situation could act is to try to bring the murderer to a situation where they can understand the magnitude of what they have done and atone for it.&nbsp; Essentially turning the slightly Evil murderer into a Good person who can then bring more Good into the world.In your description the farmer treats the murderer as just another worker (more or less), but does not go out of his way to make the murderer a better person.&nbsp; The day after the old man dies and the slave is freed, the slave could potentially kill another person in exactly the same manner as the farmer's son.This question was more in the nature of whether or not the slave was really a slave.&nbsp;&nbsp; To go outside your example to illustrate an extreme, if the murderer had volunteered to serve the farmer then it wouldn't be fair to call him a slave.Corran</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Iron Sheep, post: 1918342, member: 4965"] Essentially, the murderer has committed an Evil act. In the example, it is not premeditated in any sense, so it is probably a lesser Evil. One possible way that a Good character in the farmer's situation could act is to try to bring the murderer to a situation where they can understand the magnitude of what they have done and atone for it. Essentially turning the slightly Evil murderer into a Good person who can then bring more Good into the world. In your description the farmer treats the murderer as just another worker (more or less), but does not go out of his way to make the murderer a better person. The day after the old man dies and the slave is freed, the slave could potentially kill another person in exactly the same manner as the farmer's son. This question was more in the nature of whether or not the slave was really a slave. To go outside your example to illustrate an extreme, if the murderer had volunteered to serve the farmer then it wouldn't be fair to call him a slave. Corran [/QUOTE]

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