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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AndrewDB" data-source="post: 4859032" data-attributes="member: 67594"> I don't believe most of us are disagreeing with the statement above. I certainly don't believe that going out of your way to prevent potential evil is required in order to avoid being considered evil yourself; especially if you’re fearful of retaliating villains. If you’re not concerned by retaliating villains though, warning someone might be required in order to avoid being considered a terrible person, and possibly responsible for part of the crime in the eyes of the law, but not quite evil. But doing something evil yourself is still evil, even if doing so was easy or convenient (in which case you would be considered lazy and evil, not unaligned). You're probably evil if you planned a robbery (or robbed a store for cool stuff during a riot), or murdered someone. Maybe not evil incarnate in each case, but you’re more evil than unaligned. If you fall into an evil act unintentionally, then you could claim to be unaligned without contest. Intent is key though, not simply ease of action. It may not seem balanced, but I would say you need to go out of your way and intend to do good before you’re aligned as such, but merely make a conscious decision and intend to do evil before your aligned as such. The reason is that it’s generally in your best interest to be good and therefore the median point within unaligned falls closer to good.</blockquote>