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<blockquote data-quote="Endur" data-source="post: 2113352" data-attributes="member: 3346">I think its possible that &quot;prostitution&quot; or other &quot;victimless&quot; crimes could be defined as evil even if we defined the people who participate in the act are themselves Lawful Good or another alignment.i.e. good people can commit evil acts.&nbsp; It may make them less good and closer to neutral, but committing an evil act doesn't automatically make someone evil.Another example would be drinking alcohol.&nbsp; One could define the institutionalized consumption of alcohol as &quot;evil&quot; because of the many bad effects that alcohol inflicts upon society.&nbsp; Look at the abstinence movement in the USA that created Prohibtion in the USA in the 1920's for a list of those bad effects.And yet legions of Lawful Good Dwarves enjoy their ale and beer every day.Its also possible to argue that &quot;victimless&quot; crimes are never Evil.&nbsp; That the requirement to have a victim is what determines whether the act is evil.&nbsp; So participating in victimless crimes might mean that someone is chaotic, a lawbreaker, but not evil.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Endur, post: 2113352, member: 3346"] I think its possible that "prostitution" or other "victimless" crimes could be defined as evil even if we defined the people who participate in the act are themselves Lawful Good or another alignment. i.e. good people can commit evil acts. It may make them less good and closer to neutral, but committing an evil act doesn't automatically make someone evil. Another example would be drinking alcohol. One could define the institutionalized consumption of alcohol as "evil" because of the many bad effects that alcohol inflicts upon society. Look at the abstinence movement in the USA that created Prohibtion in the USA in the 1920's for a list of those bad effects. And yet legions of Lawful Good Dwarves enjoy their ale and beer every day. Its also possible to argue that "victimless" crimes are never Evil. That the requirement to have a victim is what determines whether the act is evil. So participating in victimless crimes might mean that someone is chaotic, a lawbreaker, but not evil. [/QUOTE]

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