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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bob Aberton" data-source="post: 598626" data-attributes="member: 1518">Death Knell & the Assassin, IMHO, are evil for basically the same reason.Death Knell is evil because it involves killing a creature for personal power .  Remember, if you hadn't used Death Knell, the creature might have recovered.  But now it's dead, and you profited from its death.Assassin is evil, not because it draws on cosmologically evil forces, IMHO, but because being an assassin involves killing for personal gain.Do you think someone who can look at people and think of them only as targets can really be a Good, or even Neutral person?An assassin has ceased to view his/her targets as people.  They are above compassion or mercy.In a way, the assassin is more reprehensible than the NE wizard who kills because he is crazy, or because he wanted revenge.The NE wizard at least has a personal reason for killing his targets.  The assassin doesn't even have the thin excuse of personal motives for killing his target.  You can argue all you want.  I say that an assassin who kills for his country is still evil.Like someone pointed out, an assassin is not just killing people.  An assassin represents the pinnacle of achievement in the art of killing people.  In my opinion, someone like that is definately no longer Good, and probably not even Neutral.</blockquote>