Pentiment Act II moral intuition spoilers. Folks who haven't played Pentiment, I recommend you stop reading and go play Pentiment (by Obsidian Entertainment -- their most interesting game since New Vegas imo) right now. (Or at least scroll to the next post and put Pentiment in your backlog.)
If you still are here and haven't played Pentiment (or just need a refresher), in Acts I and II the game presents a murder and leaves the player to solve it. Though there are a lot of suspicious characters with motives and circumstantial evidence, there doesn't seem to be a single suspect with an iron clad case against them for either murder. Still the game makes you pick someone to pin the murder on.
In Act II specifically, there is deep unrest among the peasants and even from some of the burgers about rising taxes, interpretations of leases, and access to the woods by way of the abbey who are the feifholders of the area. The unrest turns into open revolt when the town carpenter who leads the unrest is murdered, leading to the peasants sacking the abbey and driving the monks to hole-up in the abbey library.
With all that out of the way...
It's kind of nuts how many fans seem to excuse Brother Guy's embezzlement from the abbey because he claims to be funneling the money for the benefit of the oppressed Jewry. I'll give committed utilitarians a break here even though I'm not one (at least certainly not at the micro scale), but it seems like a large portion of the fandom excuses it because it is "for a good cause" without it even giving any second thought to who he's harming. It's clear that the abbey being broke is a direct cause of the Abbey putting the screws to the farmers. Guy himself suggested to the Abbot taxing the farmers harder to make up for deficits (and even if he didn't its the obvious play).
Does any of this make Brother Guy directly guilty of the homicide? No. But it is pretty clear he is more responsible than anyone for the unrest that lead to the peasant uprising.
I don't fault anyone who threw a different suspect to the mob on their own earnest weighing of the evidence (or just to see all the endings, it is a game after all), but I am kind of shocked by how many fans go oh Smol Brother Guy he just has a kind heart and is trying to help the oppressed Jews. It's not his money to give, and the abbey and by proxy their tenants are really suffering from the loss of the fruit of their land.
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