Benevolent Choices...i Beg To Differ - Pillars Of Eternity

The dispositions are not some sort of moral compass, exactly, and more how other people will value what you do or say. Here it is benevolent because you show comapssion to these people. Yes, they've done something bad, even if it may have been justified, but your action towards them is a benevolent one. 

 

I don't know. It seems to me that " benevolent " here means being a hypocrite.

 

I mean, you show compassion by breaking the law, letting those murderers free. No way.

 

Who are you to judge who deserve mercy ?

 

By showing your misplaced compassion, you judge in your way those criminals. But you can't replace the law, you can't take this kind of decisions...

 

Being benevolent, in my opinion, means indeed showing mercy and being compassionate, but... following the law.

 

If a murderer deserve to go to jail, if you are benevolent you do all you can to put him in jail instead of killing him. You do not let him go, because in that way...

 

Yes, you are benevolent because you forgive the murderer. But what about the one that got killed ? His killer got away without paying for his crime. So, you are surely not benevolent to the victim.

 

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So, what's better ?

 

Put the killer to jail --> justice served for both killer and victim

 

or

 

Let the killer go away --> mercy for the killer while the victim is forced to suffer, because the one that killed him got away ?

 

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Choices...life is full of them. If you kill, it's your fault : you chose to kill someone and so you deserve to go to jail.

 

Benevolence is following the law in the less painful and more merciful way.

 

But nonetheless you have to follow the laws.

 

Oh, and morality too. Because if you only follow the law, you could follow the laws of a tyrant. So, you should follow both. Morality + law, always.

 

That's my opinion on the matter.

Edited March 5, 20169 yr by Masterteo89