Originally Posted by GM4Him
I'd also like to point out that the original games allowed you to attack anyone and everyone, including kids. You could select the Attack command and then click on the target and start attacking them. Sure. There were usually consequences. But you could do it. So why wouldn't you be able to do it in BG3? Why are people having such an issue with it in this game but not the originals?

"We used to be able to do 'x'" isn't exactly a good argument for why something should be allowed.