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<blockquote data-quote="Felix" data-source="post: 3134926" data-attributes="member: 3929">Well then, by all means... please do.If you relent to &quot;Depriving a sentient being of life&quot; as being an acceptable definiton, then the ghost still was not murdered: he had no life to deprive him of; someone who was killed and then later brought back to life was deprived of life, if only for a short while, and so was still murdered.It would be evil to kill the innocent, yes. I don't regard the ghost's condition as equal to a living man's, however, so I do not concede that point. But assuming the Evilness of the act, the paladin loses his powers the second he strikes the innocnet.Were the authorities to come and attempt to arrest him, and he were to lash out and kill the police, yes, that too would be evil. And if the paladin rendered the police helpless and then killed them, that also would be evil. But if the police were killed without the malicious intent of killing, while he would be guilty of murder, the act itself wouldn't be evil.There's room to argue that it is not possible to kill without a malicious intent, but that's a different thread, and if you assume that it is possible, then it is also possible for an evil person to kill someone without having it be an [Evil] act. Unlikely, but possible.----Regardless, until SS reveals the Truth of his campaign regarding the [Evil]ness of the existance of undead, this kind of semantical manaeuvering is fairly meaningless.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Felix, post: 3134926, member: 3929"] Well then, by all means... please do. If you relent to "Depriving a sentient being of life" as being an acceptable definiton, then the ghost still was not murdered: he had no life to deprive him of; someone who was killed and then later brought back to life [i]was[/i] deprived of life, if only for a short while, and so was still murdered. It would be evil to kill the innocent, yes. I don't regard the ghost's condition as equal to a living man's, however, so I do not concede that point. But assuming the Evilness of the act, the paladin loses his powers the second he strikes the innocnet. Were the authorities to come and attempt to arrest him, and he were to lash out and kill the police, yes, that too would be evil. And if the paladin rendered the police helpless and then killed them, that also would be evil. But if the police were killed without the malicious intent of killing, while he would be guilty of murder, the act itself wouldn't be evil. There's room to argue that it is not possible to kill without a malicious intent, but that's a different thread, and if you assume that it is possible, then it is also possible for an evil person to kill someone without having it be an [Evil] act. Unlikely, but possible. ---- Regardless, until SS reveals the Truth of his campaign regarding the [Evil]ness of the existance of undead, this kind of semantical manaeuvering is fairly meaningless. [/QUOTE]

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