Quote Originally Posted by Mando Knight View Post
you aren't really Good if you refuse to risk yourself to help a teammate in dire need.
I disagree pretty strongly with this. Good doesn't have to be self-sacrificing. Now, if we're talking about children too young to understand the danger, then I think you have a moral obligation to put yourself at risk to help. But if the PCs are old enough to be adventurers, they are old enough to live with the consequences of their own stupidity. I'm not saying you should let them die if you have a reasonable chance of saving them, but in the scenarios you described it sounds like he evaluated that trying to save them would have entailed major risk to both the smart PCs and the non-adventurers. This is really a Scylla and Charybdis situation, neither is inherently good or evil.