Character Alignment: Difference between revisions

** However,One severalarc recent strips givegives an excellent illustration of alignments coming into conflict: The [[Lawful Good]] Celia, [[Chaotic Good]] Haley, and [[Chaotic Evil]] Belkar encounter a couple of [[Lawful Evil]] Hobgoblins. Belkar stabs the Hobgoblin because he just likes killing. Celia is horrified at his random unlawful murder, but Haley justifies it by saying that as they are fighting a war against evil, the unjust killing was, if not necessary, then at least acceptable. However, then they come into contact with a friendly gnome merchant, who Belkar then also stabs. Haley is horrified, but Belkar points out that the gnome's cart and donkey are of great use to the group, and likely to benefit the resistance more than his hobgoblin slaying. Celia then starts commenting on how [[Not So Different]] the situation is, and sarcastically suggests that Haley should paint the corpse to look like a Hobgoblin so that Haley can more easily rationalize this second unlawful killing.