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[Biopass]

I will not draft dwarves with immediate family, especially children, present in the fortress. If female draftees give birth they are released, unless they are so high-skilled that it would cause an unhappy thought.

I also don't kill cats unless absolutely necessary- I trade them.

[Gorfob]

i refuse to kill elves. its a pain in the ass to forbid/dump all their junk.

1) Run a dump selection over eveyrthing you hve caged
2) Go into stocks and undump cages only.
3) Watch as your dwarvers spedn the next 15 years carrying the elves socks 1 by 1 to a garbage dump

Personally I use this:

http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Stupid_dwarf_trick#Mass_Cage_Recycling_System

[Hammerstar]

Only one cat is needed to keep the fortress clear of rodents, unless you've grown especially huge, and I've dealt with catsplosions in the past. When the time comes to cull the herd, you'd be surprised how quickly dwarves get sick of cat meat.

[zchris13]

First impression of this thread: You were massively incompetent. Now I just think you're sappy.

[schussel]

I wont dump or butcher them, but use em for recon and bait issues

oddly later behind my weapon trap/dodgetrap hall - imagine 2 chained kittens scratch the hell out of a surviving warleopard with broken legs -
he got launched between them by the trap somehow and kept passing out.

After 2 seasons i finaly got fed up and drafted a hunter to kill this poor fellow

[Uristocrat]

I don't use wooden axes to cut down trees. I also don't kill dwarves deliberately, and try to avoid putting them in excessively dangerous situations. No charges over open ground when facing ranged attackers, that sort of thing.

The only reason I stopped using wooden axes was because I could make metal ones so easily and I wanted my woodcutters to be properly armed.  As for kittens, I think I was planning to implement a "kitten smelter" once upon a time.  Which is strange, because I like IRL cats.

In Dwarf Fortress, it's just not safe to be a cat.

[malimbar04]

I just can't do it. They are just so small and helpless and cute and... AWW! Who's my fuzzy little kitty? You are!

I know atrocities in the name of !!SCIENCE!! and Fun! are normal in the world of DF, but is there something you refuse to do in the game?

it sounds like you like cats for their aloofness.

There are only a few things I can't do anymore. I couldn't kill a good-aligned FB recently (it was just so... innocent), and I don't kill cats and dogs unless I need to.

[Baron Baconeer]

I've had a fort that ate cats, wore cats and crafted cat bone crafts. Solely.

Coincidentally, I don't like cats.

[xordae]

I don't kill caravans or dwarves and I try to get immigrants into the fortress alive.

[Cotes]

The only thing I won't horribly murder or torture is aesthetics.

[Dorf3000]

I've been playing DF since before 40d came out, and it seems the only thing I won't do is actually finish building and running a fort before it goes irreparably wrong, or I get bored and have a new idea for it, or the next version comes out.  I'd like to have some epic stories and sieges that litter the ground with corpses and blood, but I never actually get the fortress defences finished (or trained) before I'm already starting again.

[Musashi]

I like cats a lot, but I had to resolve myself to killing the kitties. On the other hand, once one of these manages to adopt a dwarf... I won't go out of my way to kill the owner or the pet.
Also, I don't do segregation or mass-killing of my dwarfs. Even though their sheer number annoys me, I can't execute or lock out immigrants. I once forcefully enrolled "useless" dwarfs in a squad whose only decided fate was to be launched from a bridge... most survived and became target practice for doctors. A few didn't survive the fall. And a couple more were atomsmashed because they were stuck under the raised bridge. The fact some of them already got lovers, and actually didn't do anything wrong besides thinking the cheese industry would be big... I had to stop after the 3rd launch. Instead, I forcefully enroll them instead in a special meatshield squad should the rest of my military be particularly weakened. They still get metal/leather armor and wooden/iron weapons because meat shields typically last a lot faster if they're not just made of meat.

tl;dr: I got so many scruples it's a good thing I can instead unleash my wrath on nobles and goblins and elfs and horrors of the deep and...

[ragnarok97071]

Only on the bay12 forums does this thread make any sense at all. To be honest, I seem to be a bit of a sociopath to everything but my dwarves. Cats? BUTCHER THEM. Elves? MAGMA. and so on.

[Jordan~]

Lots of things. My dwarves only kill in self-defense and I'd rather let some haulier go berzerk than butcher someone's pet to get him the bones he needs for a mood.
Maybe an exception for someone who so much as looks a dog funny. No mercy for them.

[Encased in burning magma]

I never managed to tolerate the economy for long.