Slavery Question

[Bloodstone Press]

Free the slaves, it is not your responsibility what they do once they are free. If they turn out to do eveil things, then hunt them down.

I agree. freeing the slaves is good and giving them a chance to redeem themselves is also good. If they don't repent, then that is their fault and they wll have to be punished for any evil deeds they do later.

 

[FreeTheSlaves]

FreeTheSlaves.

It is that simple.

 

[K'Plah Q'Houme]

I would first give them a chance to redeem themselves, if they refuse this, it's simple: kill 'em all. They are evil and therefore poisede to do evil acts. By ridding the world of them, you do all good aligned a favor, and help shift the balance towards good.
Othervise read the dogma of your deity thoroughly, it must say how to treat evil beings.

 

[Dogbrain]

Hey all;

(tale of how a DM has decided to screw over a PC)

Get an olive loaf and pummel your DM insensate with it.

 

[Dogbrain]

I agree. freeing the slaves is good and giving them a chance to redeem themselves is also good. If they don't repent, then that is their fault and they wll have to be punished for any evil deeds they do later.

And the authorities will hunt down the fool who freed them and charge him with mass reckless endangerment, locking the threat to society away forever.

 

[billd91]

And the authorities will hunt down the fool who freed them and charge him with mass reckless endangerment, locking the threat to society away forever.

And the authorities so blinkered about endangerment without considering the personal responsibility of those freed (and aren't Holy Liberators supposed to be Chaotic? that's all about personal responsibility and not necessarily kowtowing to the "legit" authorities), then the Holy Liberator is fully justified in resisting his own arrest to the best of his ability. Welcome to conflict between law and chaos, even if both are good.
Remember, this is in the underdark and the slaver is far worse and evil than what the former slaves are likely to commit, from a grand cosmic scale of things. Freeing oppressed slaves from an evil being is a good act no matter how you slice the bologna. Even if evil eventually comes from the personal decisions of the freed slaves, it is the responsibility of the slaves who committed that evil and not the person who freed them from their own previous circumstances.
From the point of view of someone who holds a chaotic alignment...

 

[Trickstergod]

(tale of how a DM has decided to screw over a PC)

Get an olive loaf and pummel your DM insensate with it.

Because, you know, those aren't reasonable circumstances in which the PC might find himself in.

Not to mention having moral restrictions for a character like a Holy Liberator or a Paladin have no point at all if some form of conflict to them never arises.

And as has already been pointed out, the comment on the Holy Liberator being locked away is one that showcases the differences between Law and Chaos at times. Both have their flaws, so to speak, or problem areas.

 

[FireLance]

[Semi-Serious]Forget role-playing. Ask your DM to use the Moral Dilemma Resolution Mechanism (see link in sig). I think holy liberators, like paladins should get the Moral Dilemma Analysis ability too. First, roll Sense Motive to analyze the moral dilemma. If successful, roll Knowledge (Religion) to resolve the moral dilemma. If it was not successfully resolved, attempt a Will save to avoid the ill effects of a moral dilemma, award xp according to the CR of the moral dilemma, and get on with your game. [/Semi-Serious]

 

[Bloodstone Press]

And the authorities will hunt down the fool who freed them and charge him with mass reckless endangerment, locking the threat to society away forever.

Why?

Because the liberator should have had precognition and therefore known that they would commit more evil acts?
Or because the liberator should have checked the alignment entry in their stat blocks before liberating them?

Giving them a chance at redemption is clearly a more "good" option than killing them or leaving them enslaved just because they "might" commit evil acts in the future.

 

[Snoweel]

Yeah, y'know what, you probably shouldn't have wasted any money on a sword either.