My pantheon's take on Hextor

[LudicSavant]

Fair enough. One cannot argue with Sir Terry Pratchett or Granny Weatherwax.

I was more thinking about the logic behind "No one thinks of themselves as Evil" in a world where Detect Evil is a thing.

Oh yeah. What it comes down to, for me, is that there's really no more logical reason to think that Detect Evil is a perfect test any more than any test in the real world is. I think people just take the author's word for it rather than thinking it through from an in-world perspective.

Even in a setting like Forgotten Realms, most of those theories I listed could still apply.