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>>15896224
>If your action has neither reaction or observable influence, it is not an action. Sorry, but that won't really change.
Yeah it will. If you define action to be how physics defines it then you might as well go all the way and define good and evil the way physics defines it, where the closest thing physics has to evil is making claims impossible to disprove.

>You don't need to exert any force to sit
Depends on your sitting posture, If you were to, say, cast an instant death spell on someone sitting while leaning back, he'll just slump backwards in his chair.
If you do the same to someone sitting ~stylishly~ he'll probably fall off the chair or slump in a completely unnatural manner.

Thinking is considered to be an action.
Now I'm actually not involved in the previous argument since if you're going to use DnD's alignments then there's literally nothing to argue about as there's given definitions for each alignment and good and evil are otherwise completely subjective terms to begin with, I'm just pointing out that thinking is, in fact, generally considered to be an action, because when we say 'I'm thinking about home', we mean, you are actively pushing 'home' to the front of your mind and turning the concept over in your head. Outside of physics an action is just something you have to actively 'do', physically or not. I mean by this definition, casting divine-type magic (aka, the type where you think 'okay he ded now' and the guy keels over dead) isn't an action because the caster didn't actually do anything.

>>15896250
Well it gets pretty close at times I guess.