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August 12, 2021 at 10:38 am #1670036

blinky465

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@sundancer – locking someone up because they stole something *is* against the law (the name “unlawful imprisonment” is a bit of a clue). An agent of the law, with the authority to apprehend and imprison people can, but everyone else can’t. Similarly, if murder is against the law, people who have been authorised to use lethal force are not “murdering”.

Maybe in the mind of a “good” person everything is wrong? What started out as a pithy comment has now left me actually confused about “good” and “lawful”.

Adhering to the law – whatever that law may be and no matter how immoral – makes one lawful. Even if the law is “evil”. But breaking the rule of law makes a character unlawful. Is the wink because you’re teasing me now? I’m baffled and convinced more than ever that nobody actually knows what “alignment” in RPG games means!