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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jolly Giant" data-source="post: 3870515" data-attributes="member: 5278">Wow. I started a Dragnolance/Star Wars thread! I never would have guessed.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Jokes aside, thanks to everyone for their helpful input. I'm still open for more ideas though. Particularly if anyone has thoughts about how good intentions can lead to oppression and more-or-less evil results. The plan is that it should start small, but escalate. It could easily lead to situations like the witch-burnings the "good" people of our world performed in their eagerness to combat evil. Eventually, it might start to look more like the Spanish inquisition. Or not. I'm still thinking out loud here, as a brainstorming excersice. Finally, yet another attempt to clarify what I meant by "the tyranny of good": After a long-running series of new, ever-stricter laws, regulation, et cetera; the land ends up with a set of laws that can be summarized like this: "Be good. Be lawful." The penalty for breaking these laws can be anything from fines or prison to hanging. In other words; while the goal was to create a society with no evil or anarchy, a society with no personal freedom is the result.</blockquote>