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    Quote Originally Posted by Carry2 View Post
    I mean folks like the goblins in Durokan's dungeon, or the thieves in Greysky city, or the guards in the imperial palace and arena. Aside from working for unsavory authority figures, and attacking the order for trespassing on their turf, we don't generally see them doing specific bad stuff. I mean, we don't really know these are all sadistic torturers, or just card-punching regular joes stuck in a low-end job.

    Now, sure, these folks are probably likely to be an unpleasant bunch, but even if you assume that 99% of these folks are severely evil, that works out, statistically, to at least a couple of innocent people killed. (I mean, the goblin survival rate for Durokan's dungeon, after Elan got through with it, appears to have been 0%.)
    The goblins were goblins that invaded a guys home, which is wrong, being "forced" by an epic lich or not. For Greysky, you cannot be arguing that cartel/gang rule is somehow justification to kill people on other people's property. (All the killing, except Crystal, was in Blind Pete's house, with a bunch of rogues coming in to explicilty kill Haley and Co.). We even have Haley say "FYI readers, these people are terrible excuses for organs." The Empire of Blood goons, you could make an argument for "Haley didn't have to kill those guards", and she didn't, but being a guard for the Lawful Evil government is not actually the only job in a Lawful Evil nation, and enforcing Evil is not innocence. (Those Lawful Nuetral Javert types aren't exactly innocent, because even Good is not always Good, so how can Neutral be? They aren't newborn babies, they are full grown sentient beings who have free will.)
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