"I have been known to have results in the world - on purpose! Things that were actually substantially opposed to a widespread farming or gathering lifestyle! - and make sacrifices for them. And I read Good, apparently."

"Huh. What things?"

"Ended material scarcity for billions of people."

"- huh. I guess maybe it depends how you go about it but I would've expected almost all possible ways of going about that to be Evil."

"Oh? Just because it's ambitious?"

"And because - Good's awfully narrow, right, there's such a tiny list of ways of doing things that's Good-approved, and in the course of doing anything actually ambitious I'd expect you'd have to - step outside the lines, even if you started out more sympathetic to Good - or more squeamish - than I am -"

"I suspect that's why I read Chaotic, but I didn't have to hurt anybody."

"Lots of things are Evil that aren't hurting people. Or that hurt people but aren't bad for them, like dentistry."

"What things are Evil that aren't hurting people?"

"Making a lot of money. Worshipping Asmodeus, or convincing other people to, or worshipping some other Evil god, or convincing other people to. Casting Evil spells, including infernal healing, which is the only healing spell we have. Necromancy."

"Wow, making a lot of money is evil? Do people mostly take vows of poverty if they wanna be Good? I guess I didn't happen to make any money. I don't know enough about your gods or magic to guess at the others."

"I think they mostly give their wealth to their Good church? Paladins are mostly allowed their fancy Evil-slaying gear but you wouldn't expect one to have, like, a nice house. Maybe you just happened not to break any of the rules but you'd have gotten really lucky. What if someone had tried to stop you from ending material scarcity and you'd had to defend yourself, would you have?"

"I did operate in secret for that reason! Later someone found out and was mad and murdered me."

"Ah. I guess if material scarcity is solved and you can just have resurrections in lieu of self-defense that also might create a society in which people aren't Evil."

"- oh, no, I wasn't resurrected, I turned into an apsel instead."

"Ah, okay. Do you like it?"

"I do! I was pretty bummed about being out of touch with my parents but now they're dead too."

"I've heard it said that it's better to die young but," Shrug. "There's not a known fact of the matter about it."

"Why is that said here?"

"Uh, because you're not really useful alive, unless you're a very unusual person, and everyone can be useful, in death. And because to the extent you are useful alive it's mostly as a young person, right, when you can be a soldier and have children. And also because you might develop habits of mind, in life - stubbornness, quiet personal heresies - that are going to make it harder than it needs to be to fix you afterwards."

"Yikes!" Since they are on a shuttle Cam shrugs out of his coat, though the shirt stays on, and stretches his wings. "Well, things don't work that way where I'm from."

"There are places that aren't like Cheliax on Golarion! They're all worse, but they exist."

"Worse how?"

"Well, uh, in most of them women don't have rights! Cheliax is the only country that'd pay for me to go to school. Nidal worships the god of torture and they just torture everyone all the time, not even because it improves them in any way but just for fun. Andoran has like half their kids starving in orphanages because they banned abortion suddenly. Taldor has a civil war every five years, sometimes they're in a hurry so they do it every three. Osirion's a theocracy under the pharaoh who has, like, three hundred concubines and no one's allowed to talk to him directly and it's illegal to doubt that he's literally a god. Thuvia is being invaded by daemons from Abaddon. Katapesh has half their human population enslaved.  Numeria is ruled by a drunk barbarian who ordered all the nation's grain made into an enormous alcohol pool for him to paddle a raft around in. They lost almost everyone under five that winter, a guy I met from there said. Galt has overthrown its government like ten times in the last twenty years. They execute people with special guillotines that trap the soul so it can't make it to an afterlife."

"Half their human population, that's specific."