Dark Justice

This path is a variation of Humanity; behaviors generally considered immoral under Humanity are usually considered immoral under Dark Justice, unless otherwise specified.

Where "poetic justice" is listed, these behaviors are permissible only in responding to a criminal's actions and cannot exceed the severity of the criminal's own acts. Murdering a thief isn't allowed under poetic justice, for example, but robbing one blind would be.

Level	Requirements	Killing justified?
10	Defend all life, protect the innocent, always turn the guilty in to proper authorities	Never
9	As above but you may take justice into your own hands if a criminal cannot be safely caught	Only to protect an innocent
8	You can't always trust the law: Take justice into your own hands as seems justified Poetic Justice: Theft, fraud	Self-defense, to protect lives of sentient beings (murderers excepted)
7	Poetic Justice: Property damage, planting false evidence, mild physical abuse	To protect murderers, too
6	Poetic Justice: Any injury short of death, threats to innocent relatives (but not carried out)	To protect animals
5	You can't trust the authorities at all: Avoid working with them when possible Poetic Justice: Murder	To protect monsters, to prevent a criminal's escape
4	You now act preemptively: If you are certain a criminal will commit a worse crime, you may act as if it were already committed (so you may murder someone planning murder) Poetic Justice: Other felonies aimed exclusively at criminal(s)	To protect property
3	Certainty of criminality excuses torture Poetic Justice: Torture	Arbitrarily, but only to stop someone who might become a criminal
2	All criminals should be put to death	Arbitrarily, against anyone not clearly an innocent
1	Torture of witnesses acceptable (only way to learn the truth)	Always