So, were well aware of how enchantments can mess pretty hard with people minds. Some extreme examples are the dominate spells, where one strips the control of its targets own body, forcing it to do whatever he pleases, regardless of the victims consent.
Other examples are spells like charm person and unnatural lust. They invade your mind and changes the way you perseive people, the later putting you into some very embarassing positions, if not traumatic.
Now, how do you view these spells, and the way they affect alignment? Is invading someone minds and private thoughts something wrong, even if it were for a good cause? Would stripping an evil person of its ability to think and act by itself, as per dominate, be something wrong even if he were to be used for the greater good, to pay up for his crimes? What about forcing an poor rogue girl to kiss your half-orc 7 cha partner?
The objective here is to discuss the enchantments that mess with your head, and the repercussions it have on alignment. Thoughts?
I've since accepted that I tend to play borderline-evil to evil-evil enchanters, but I don't think that enchantment spells in Pathfinder are inherently evil. Ghaele azata get Charm Monster, after all. I think it's all in how you use it. Compulsion to force someone to pay for their crimes or become good-aligned wouldn't be an evil act, and probably compelling a rogue girl to kiss a 7 cha half-orc wouldn't be either. The exception might be if you knew that the half-orc had the plague and were trying to kill her by getting her to kiss the horc.
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