User blog:Inferno Pendragon/Moral Horizon Project

since this wiki is growing I think we could do with a project to work on as a community and the recent hero/villain debate has got me thinking.. what we need to do is sit down as a group and brainstorm our own code of "moral horizon" - it's been talked about a lot and sadly it's never going to be easy or 100 percent effective as morality itself is subjective.. anyway, here goes:

What Is This "Moral Horizon"?
A "Moral Horizon" is an abstract idea that kind of acts like a boundary of what pushes a character beyond the scale of "good" and into the realm of "wrong". It's really not an easy thing to explain - basically its a set of rules if you will that once broken makes a character villainous.

Why Should We Have One?
if we created a "moral horizon" or similiar code it would make it a lot easier to decide what articles should be allowed and which should not - it would avoid (as much as possible) the endless cycle of debates that are created without such a code.

How Do We Create Such A Thing?
That is probably the hardest question to answer - because nobody will agree on it.. however I suggest we come up with a list of actions that put a character into the realm of villainy then a list of actions that are normally considered heroic and compare them: for example:

if a character murders without reason they have crossed the "Moral Horizon", if a character defends others without the use of excessive force they have not crossed the "Moral Horizon" - if a character plays tricks on others but does not mean harm they have not cross the "Moral Horizon", but if they do so to harm others they have crossed the "Moral Horizon" etc..

I am terrible at wording these things but I'm sure someone else can do a better job..

Anyways, this is still a new idea and I don't know if its even a good one or not - what do you guys think? should we try and create some sort of code that we can look to in order to (more or less) determine if a character is a villain?