Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-92.251.228.132-20141108020915/@comment-4544033-20151030201830

If a man kills another to save somebody, there is nothing wrong with that, it is self defense, and legal in any logical society. The legal system does allow some leeway in that regard. When lives are in danger, the law tends to overlook some matters, even having to kill in some cases.

The Dark Brotherhood kills for money and their dark lord. They do not care who or why, they just do it. Unlike me killing a home invader who posed a risk to my life and the lives of my loved ones, I as a murderer have no law backing me up. Even in cases like killing terrible people, if the law catches me, they have to hold me to the same legal standards.

But law and morality are not the same. every society, religious or otherwise, would agree with the sixth commandment "thou shall not murder", not kill, but murder. To steal another life, whatever they are doing with it, is murder, and is evil.

No matter how you spin it, even if there are members of the brotherhood who are somehow not evil, the organization, and that vast majority of its members, are evil.