v0.31:Ethic

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List of acceptable ethics tags

Ethics tags are used in the entity_default raw file to determine how races feel about various issues. Relationships between civs are based on their ethics value numbers in relation to each other; Some yield favourable positive numbers or unfavourable negative numbers that result in ethic/civ conflict. Civs with UNTHINKABLE in a specific ethic will happily go to war with a different civ that has ACCEPTABLE in that same ethic type.

Example usage: [ETHIC:ASSAULT:PUNISH_SERIOUS]

In un-modded DF, this corresponds to wars over eating sapients and elves declaring war on everybody for harming plants and hunting/displaying trophies.

Ethics types

Token	Extra Information
ASSAULT
EAT_SAPIENT_KILL
EAT_SAPIENT_OTHER
KILL_ANIMAL
KILL_ENEMY
KILL_ENTITY_MEMBER
KILL_NEUTRAL
KILL_PLANT
LYING
MAKE_TROPHY_ANIMAL
MAKE_TROPHY_SAME_RACE
MAKE_TROPHY_SAPIENT
OATH_BREAKING
SLAVERY
THEFT
TORTURE_ANIMALS
TORTURE_AS_EXAMPLE
TORTURE_FOR_FUN
TORTURE_FOR_INFORMATION
TREASON
TRESPASSING
VANDALISM

Ethics values

Note: Written in alphabetical order, not order of acceptability

Token
ACCEPTABLE
APPALLING
JUSTIFIED_IF_EXTREME_REASON
JUSTIFIED_IF_GOOD_REASON
JUSTIFIED_IF_NO_REPERCUSSIONS
JUSTIFIED_IF_SELF_DEFENSE
MISGUIDED
NOT_APPLICABLE
ONLY_IF_SANCTIONED
PERSONAL_MATTER
PUNISH_CAPITAL
PUNISH_EXILE
PUNISH_REPRIMAND
PUNISH_SERIOUS
SHUN
UNTHINKABLE

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Ethics value numbers in relation to each other

Note: These were given by Toady himself [1].

Token JUSTIFIED_IF_GOOD_REASON JUSTIFIED_IF_GOOD_REASON +2 JUSTIFIED_IF_EXTREME_REASON +1 SHUN APPALLING PUNISH_REPRIMAND PUNISH_SERIOUS PUNISH_EXILE PUNISH_CAPITAL UNTHINKABLE -1 JUSTIFIED_IF_EXTREME_REASON JUSTIFIED_IF_GOOD_REASON +1 JUSTIFIED_IF_EXTREME_REASON +2 SHUN APPALLING PUNISH_REPRIMAND PUNISH_SERIOUS PUNISH_EXILE PUNISH_CAPITAL UNTHINKABLE PERSONAL_MATTER ACCEPTABLE -1 JUSTIFIED_IF_SELF_DEFENSE JUSTIFIED_IF_EXTREME_REASON +1 JUSTIFIED_IF_SELF_DEFENSE +2 APPALLING PUNISH_REPRIMAND PUNISH_SERIOUS PUNISH_EXILE PUNISH_CAPITAL UNTHINKABLE JUSTIFIED_IF_NO_REPERCUSSIONS -1 PERSONAL_MATTER ACCEPTABLE -2 ONLY_IF_SANCTIONED ONLY_IF_SANCTIONED +2 JUSTIFIED_IF_EXTREME_REASON +1 JUSTIFIED_IF_NO_REPERCUSSIONS UNTHINKABLE APPALLING PUNISH_REPRIMAND PUNISH_SERIOUS PUNISH_EXILE PUNISH_CAPITAL -1 PERSONAL_MATTER ACCEPTABLE -2 MISGUIDED MISGUIDED +2 SHUN APPALLING PUNISH_REPRIMAND UNTHINKABLE +1 PUNISH_CAPITAL PERSONAL_MATTER ACCEPTABLE -1 SHUN SHUN +2 MISGUIDED APPALLING PUNISH_REPRIMAND UNTHINKABLE +1 PUNISH_CAPITAL PERSONAL_MATTER ACCEPTABLE -1 APPALLING PERSONAL_MATTER ACCEPTABLE -5 JUSTIFIED_IF_NO_REPERCUSSIONS -3 JUSTIFIED_IF_GOOD_REASON ONLY_IF_SANCTIONED -2 JUSTIFIED_IF_EXTREME_REASON JUSTIFIED_IF_SELF_DEFENSE -1 SHUN PUNISH_REPRIMAND PUNISH_SERIOUS MISGUIDED PUNISH_EXILE UNTHINKABLE +1 APPALLING +2 PUNISH_REPRIMAND PERSONAL_MATTER ACCEPTABLE -5 JUSTIFIED_IF_NO_REPERCUSSIONS -3 JUSTIFIED_IF_GOOD_REASON ONLY_IF_SANCTIONED -2 JUSTIFIED_IF_EXTREME_REASON JUSTIFIED_IF_SELF_DEFENSE -1 SHUN PUNISH_SERIOUS APPALLING MISGUIDED PUNISH_EXILE UNTHINKABLE +1 PUNISH_REPRIMAND +2 PUNISH_SERIOUS PERSONAL_MATTER ACCEPTABLE -10 JUSTIFIED_IF_NO_REPERCUSSIONS -7 JUSTIFIED_IF_GOOD_REASON ONLY_IF_SANCTIONED -3 JUSTIFIED_IF_EXTREME_REASON JUSTIFIED_IF_SELF_DEFENSE -2 SHUN APPALLING PUNISH_EXILE UNTHINKABLE PUNISH_CAPITAL 1 PUNISH_SERIOUS +2 PUNISH_EXILE PERSONAL_MATTER ACCEPTABLE -10 JUSTIFIED_IF_NO_REPERCUSSIONS -7 JUSTIFIED_IF_GOOD_REASON ONLY_IF_SANCTIONED -3 JUSTIFIED_IF_EXTREME_REASON JUSTIFIED_IF_SELF_DEFENSE -2 SHUN APPALLING PUNISH_SERIOUS UNTHINKABLE PUNISH_CAPITAL +1 PUNISH_EXILE +2 PUNISH_CAPITAL PERSONAL_MATTER ACCEPTABLE -15 JUSTIFIED_IF_NO_REPERCUSSIONS -10 JUSTIFIED_IF_GOOD_REASON ONLY_IF_SANCTIONED -5 JUSTIFIED_IF_EXTREME_REASON JUSTIFIED_IF_SELF_DEFENSE -3 APPALLING PUNISH_SERIOUS UNTHINKABLE PUNISH_EXILE +1 PUNISH_CAPITAL +2 UNTHINKABLE PERSONAL_MATTER ACCEPTABLE -15 JUSTIFIED_IF_NO_REPERCUSSIONS -10 JUSTIFIED_IF_GOOD_REASON ONLY_IF_SANCTIONED -5 JUSTIFIED_IF_EXTREME_REASON JUSTIFIED_IF_SELF_DEFENSE -3 SHUN APPALLING PUNISH_SERIOUS PUNISH_EXILE PUNISH_CAPITAL +1 UNTHINKABLE +2 JUSTIFIED_IF_NO_REPERCUSSIONS PERSONAL_MATTER ACCEPTABLE MISGUIDED -1 SHUN APPALLING PUNISH_REPRIMAND UNTHINKABLE -2 PUNISH_SERIOUS -3 PUNISH_EXILE PUNISH_CAPITAL -5 JUSTIFIED_IF_NO_REPERCUSSIONS PERSONAL_MATTER ACCEPTABLE +1