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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 8572269" data-attributes="member: 6779196">So what you’ve effectively done is broken it into more than nine categories. But again, in practice there must come a point where a character crosses the threshold from one category into another.For sure. I mean, even a rule specifying that the DM can decide to change a character’s alignment if they think the character’s actions generally reflect a different one than&nbsp; they have written would be more than currently existsIt means I care about consequences, or if you like, outcomes, over motivations. To put it very simply, if you step on my foot, I can’t know if you meant to step on my foot or not, but my foot got stepped on by you either way, so an apology is in order even if it wasn’t intentional. The outcome is what matters.There are plenty of other schools of thought surrounding ethics, and most people don’t really have a coherent ethical framework, they just rely on intuition. But I am a pretty hardline consequentialist, so we aren’t going to be able to agree on whether or not&nbsp; motivation matters more than outcome.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 8572269, member: 6779196"] So what you’ve effectively done is broken it into more than nine categories. But again, in practice there must come a point where a character crosses the threshold from one category into another. For sure. I mean, even a rule specifying that the DM can decide to change a character’s alignment if they think the character’s actions generally reflect a different one than they have written would be more than currently exists It means I care about consequences, or if you like, outcomes, over motivations. To put it very simply, if you step on my foot, I can’t know if you [I]meant[/I] to step on my foot or not, but my foot got stepped on by you either way, so an apology is in order even if it wasn’t intentional. The outcome is what matters. There are plenty of other schools of thought surrounding ethics, and most people don’t really have a coherent ethical framework, they just rely on intuition. But I am a pretty hardline consequentialist, so we aren’t going to be able to agree on whether or not motivation matters more than outcome. [/QUOTE]

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