Quote Originally Posted by Jason View Post
For paladins there is an easy way to determine if singing and dancing is evil: use your detect evil power before and after someone dances or sings. If you don't get an evil reading then that behavior wasn't evil.
Detect Evil, at least in 3.0 to 3.5, isn't that good at fine detail. You can have a Neutral character who commits a technically evil theft (their victim could reasonably be described as "the needy" and there's no alignment change after the theft - because it requires more than one evil act to change alignment - it requires repeatedly committing Evil acts to change a character's alignment.