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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 594791" data-attributes="member: 2067">But there's a LOT of moral implications in it. If you've taken a prisoner, you've rendered the foe helpless.When is it good to take a helpless life?I'd argue Never. If you take it anyway to prevent it from coming back later, that's Neutral (understandable, bt not incredibly heroic). If you kill them because they wanted te kill you, that's Evil (taking vengeance, and thus having pleasure in their death).Even if he's put to death by the guards that eventually capture him, is that a Good thing? Wouldn't it be better to keep him helpless so that he can be persuaded to come around? And isn't it up to the Law to determine if the man was justified in his actions (if the society was a Good one, they certainly wouldn't begrudge a poverty-stricken man who was starving and whose house had been taken by a corrupt noble...you have to take into account the motive for the action).But that's why most people are Neutral and not Good. It'd be arguably foolish to *not* kill the bandit, because he could still hurt you. That, I think, is one of the hallmarks of Good. You do things that wouldn't nessecarily be in your best interest because it is the Right Thing to Do.Though, I must say, I'm putting this into practice toot suite, to see how my PC's react to it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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