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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TimSmith" data-source="post: 2164501" data-attributes="member: 10322">Good points all. I suppose we all think of "good" as the ideal to aspire to, so it is harder to maintain, but as you say, the same standards in reverse should apply to evil, and probably some sort of equally demanding neutral requirements. Your mention of Law vs Chaos also gets me thinking- are the player characters in the original example actually acting CHAOTICALLY rather than EVILLY? The prisoners are evil and therefore deserving of execution (for the sake of this argument) but the characters are not a properly constituted court, nor are they the lawful representatives of Mourngrym Lord of Shadowdale, empowered to dispense his justice. Who are they to decide if the prisoners are deserving of death? Perhaps to a GOOD character it doesn't matter who kills them (passing the buck to someone else doesn't alter the fact that they will/should die so its hypocritical to do so). But to a LAWFUL character it DOES matter as the law should be done and be seen to be done....Perhaps a lawful character would naturally demand a contract of employment/rules of engagement/letter of marque from Mourngrym before he would undertake a mission (just so that there's no mistake in his rights and responsibilities and he has "proper authority" for what he does).</blockquote>