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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Incenjucar" data-source="post: 1766542" data-attributes="member: 6182">Ahem.There is no logical argument, within the confines of the D&D RAW, that shows that using the corpses of creatures in any way is inherently evil, just like killing, causing pain, imprisoning, theft, and so forth, do not have inherently evil ties (indeed, to WotC's credit, they didn't shove a bunch of alignment absolutes up our arses.  at least not in the core).For evil, you have to show malice or knowingly harming someone without remorse.In D&D, the soul requires the body to return to.  IF it is going to return.  However, serfs rather rarely have that sort of spare cash.  If they die, chances are, they stay dead.  The body is something of a portal key for the soul, but one can well sell a portal key if one never intends to use it.The soul leaves behind an impression, a foot print in the mud that is the body.  From the way the text explains it, it would seem that the will of the former body owner creates a more complex thought pattern, more difficult to gather.  Considering that a sleeping target fails all saves automatically, the dead body is actually treated as being more defensive than the sleeping living body.  Notably, this same effect (sans the save, because there was no mind at any point) works for Stone Tell, and similar spells, though I'm not sure which of them were ported to 3e.  However, there is absolutely no reference to how this effects the soul itself, and, likely, there is none.Flesh is flesh. In the real world, we make use of the dead all the time.  In the real world, we usually -respect- organ donors, who leave their legacy of flesh in another even after their death.  A willingly-given body is basically just one big giant organ.  Is it any worse to have your body be a house keeper than to be cut open and experimented on by medical students?  What about when they do experiments with electricity to try and make muscle tissue move?--Society's acceptance isn't what's important, what's important is the motive of the individual.If a society accepts random sexual encounters, without the consent of an individual (some strange peace-keeping tradition, or whatever), and despite their upraising, someone tries to refuse, but is forced anyways because the rapist just doesn't care what they feel, that, then, is an evil act.However, in that same society, if someone grabbed you to take you out back, but you just accepted it with a shrug and a grin, and they did it solely out of society's ways, it wouldn't be evil.  It'd just be bonobo-style.</blockquote>

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