Lepel; [color:"orange"]Unless you killed a very rich and greedy guy and will not use the loot for your personal benefit[/color]
I think that would still be considered murder in any religion, society or legal system.
Aha, but thats where you are wrong! (Maybe it will be considered as murder, but not necessarily as a crime) At least imo.
I'm not really talking about religions or legal systems, more about some sort of honor system. I'm just thinking about samurai and ronin. In their beliefs all traders were scum because they made fortunes out of other peoples work and thus they had no honor. So for ronin (masterless samurai or outlaws) it wouldn't damage their karma to kill such a rich trader and use his money for their beliefs. For them it would be far worse to finish off a defeaten opponent instead of allowing him to do seppuku (hara-kiri) even when they just tried to murder you. While in our standards finishing off someone that tries to kill us would be more acceptable. I know we are using western standards, but when talking about karma I feel that samurai and their beliefs should be thought about. After all wouldn't the game be great if we could really choose by wich standards our game character will live ? Offcourse this doesn't mean that everywhere we go we could do as we please, as towns we come across will have laws or rules. And offcourse people that will hate or like us according to our actions.
