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<blockquote data-quote="Storm Raven" data-source="post: 2146274" data-attributes="member: 307">Both. No one said being Lawful Good was easy.And further, what is the appropriate punishment if you did. However, even when we know that the accused is guilty - say he is caught red-handed in the act on vidoetape on national television - we still go through the process of a trial. Why? Because the means matter.The means are their own purpose. That you fail to understand this means that you don't understand the Lawful mindset.Well, except that only a handful of hardline Nazi's killed themselves, and many others surrendered. Were they summarily executed? No, we held the Nuremberg trials, even though for many of them guilt was a foregone conclusion. Why did we do this? Because the western allies were unwilling to behave like uncivlized barbarians, and the process is as important as the end. As Churchill said &quot;a dictator must not merely be defeated, he must be seen to be defeated.&quot; Killing the BBEG by lopping off his head in the middle of a swamp while his hands are tied behind his back is evil, almost by definition.And yet they still killed their prisoners. That makes their acts (in this case) evil. Sure, the real world has moral shades of grey, but, as you have pointed out, D&amp;D doesn't.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Storm Raven, post: 2146274, member: 307"] Both. No one said being Lawful Good was [i]easy[/i]. And further, what is the appropriate punishment if you did. However, even when we know that the accused is guilty - say he is caught red-handed in the act on vidoetape on national television - we still go through the process of a trial. Why? [i]Because the means matter[/i]. The means are their own purpose. That you fail to understand this means that you don't understand the Lawful mindset. Well, except that only a handful of hardline Nazi's killed themselves, and many others surrendered. Were they summarily executed? No, we held the Nuremberg trials, even though for many of them guilt was a foregone conclusion. Why did we do this? Because the western allies were unwilling to behave like uncivlized barbarians, and the process is as important as the end. As Churchill said "a dictator must not merely be defeated, he must be seen to be defeated." Killing the BBEG by lopping off his head in the middle of a swamp while his hands are tied behind his back is evil, almost by definition. And yet they still killed their prisoners. That makes their acts (in this case) evil. Sure, the real world has moral shades of grey, but, as you have pointed out, D&D doesn't. [/QUOTE]

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