Conflicting Disads - Cannot Harm Innocent's and Honesty

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Originally Posted by BrockNicholson

Cannot Harm Innocents doesn't imply to me that the opponent must be actively trying to harm you at that moment. After all it allows you to start fights. I would think that a person with Honesty from a civilization that believes in summary execution would have little problem carrying out that execution. But then again, that is how I would roleplay the character, not necessarily how your player would.

That isn't the issue. It doesn't matter whether they are harming you now, what matters is that they intend/intended to cause you serious harm. Capture is explicitly not serious harm, thus slavers are technically innocent under the disadvantages description. I might be willing to play it loose, were I the GM, but by the book the pacifist character would violate his moral code.