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Okay so Ned Flanders is good, a rational person is neutral, and anything else is evil. Got it. I'll be sure to impliment that into my next session. Welp. Looks like paladin lost favor with his deity for not being goody two shoes.

If you define them as property or otherwise less than human yes. If someone is so dangerous that they cannot ever be integrated into a society then one should kill them for the sake of your own loved ones' safety.

If they can be integrated into your society and this service is among the steps to making them "of your tribe" then it is a pragmatic neutral decision as the "slavery" is a temporary transitional state.In realistic confines though such transitional slavery would never have frequent enough escapees, that weren't simply killed due to danger, for slave catching to be a frequent occurrence.

Edit: That particular act makes you significantly closer to law at least and possibly closer to evil dependent on previously mentioned conditions.

Genocidal tendancies are more acceptable than an option of slavery vs. death? Giving a man a choice of forced servitude makes you lean towards evil as opposed to treating them like untrustworthy animals? I'm not sure I follow the logic behind that

Lets say I am the leader of a tribe. We have a rival tribe, like oh so many tribes do. One day this opposing tribe has the gall to attack my tribe. An OUTRAGE! Heavens, how dare they? What do I do? I fight, of course. Over the corse of their petty attempt at a raid, they fall to my powerful and well organized tribe. We are victorious. They weren't completely wiped out in the fight, seeing as they are rational, cognitive beings. Well, I cant let them just go on their way, now can I? I have women, and children who need protecting! I can't have them sneaking back in my camps at night and slitting their throats. So, my choices are, bleed them like pigs and let the sands swallow their blood and be done with the whole mess, or I offer them a choice. Serve me and my people, for penance of the crimes you have committed to my people, or die. Its their choice. It may not be an ideal choice, and I'd rather see them all live as servants, well treated i might add, to my people. Does that make me an evil man?

Imnah, The Half Steel wrote:

Is it 'evil' for a lawful good paladin to uphold the law by capturing and returning slaves to their master, if tasked by authorities?

Yes, that is literally the most stereotypical lawful evil act ever.

Upholding the law is evil? Do tell

Is it 'evil' for a lawful good paladin to uphold the law by capturing and returning slaves to their master, if tasked by authorities?

You make a hardy dwarven battle cleric, and let it be known that you A.) Dont have any heals, and B.) arent that kind of cleric. "Yeh can pray tae Torag to give yeh a c@#*! And mebeh hil take care o yer skinned knees, too"

Deth youre a genius!