"But I didn't do anything!" - Falling to Evil without taking actions?

[icefractal]

I'll say that in terms of ... idk, common usage? That proximity does seem to make a difference. Like, if you see someone drowning, you could easily throw them a rope, and you don't, that seems "evil" to me - and I think a lot of people would agree. On the other hand, "you live within a short drive of the docks, but you never go out patrolling them to prevent people drowning" doesn't; it doesn't even seem like something that would prevent being "good".

I'm not sure of what logically justifies that, so I'll need to think further, but it does seem like a common metric.