Good, by any means nessecary? Alignment question.

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there are effects, such as the Helm of Opposite Alignment and Sanctify the Wicked, which alter your alignment and are not inherently Evil. (In fact, StW is explicitly and extremely Good by definition.) So we know that, in essence, brainwashing is at worst a Neutrally-charged act. Free will is not a Good value, is the point.

The question is the nature of the "atrocities" you mention. Altering someone's brain directly is not Evil. Torturing them, on the other hand, is. Slavery or forced labor is. All sorts of uses of force could be considered Evil.

Red Fel!

*cough*

Could I say that Sanctify the Wicked is Lawful Good? Rather extreme on the Lawful side, probably.

A lot of those rules go out the window when dealing with inherently Evil beings, [snip] This seems, and is, somewhat contradictory, in that one would think that it's the actions, and not the targets, that define the alignment result, but that's logic, and this is RAW.

Beings made of literal Evil commit lots of despicable and Evil acts (and probably killed plenty of people), thus they have revoked their right to live. Okay, that may not make much sense either, especially with alignment systems (I really hope this is RAW somewhere, as opposed to being a ruling/houserule that other players use) that say you have to wait for actual evidence that whoever you want to kill actually did something worthy of death (or lose your Good alignment).

What books are we going off, by the way?