I agree with Emjaybee83, it seems unnecessarily inconsistent. I really think we are reading into the intentions of the player to much. As Matt has said before their is no distinguishable advantage that a new player can see from playing something like burial before or after the evil character has been place in the discard pile therefore he arbitrarily chooses one. Usually this choose is to place the evil character in the discard pile first either because he was overwelmed by the defeat or because he was simply impulsive.
I remember playiing it the other way before this rule came out. I actually preferred it the other way becasue it was in a way a check for choose the blocker (which was an NPE concept at the time). The chance at a lost soul while still sacrificing and evil character is a fair trade.
With that being said, I think it best to keep the rules the same. Instead it would be nice, since this is a confusing ruling for the little ones, for everyone to be obligated to extend grace in these situations. For example if the person just throws his evil character away let him but it back in battle and say if you want to play a dominant you have to play it before he dies. I would hate to see someone at a high level tournament, in type 2 multi, rescue for the win or for some monumental soul count in which he chooses the kid to block with an ec not his own and the kid discard the ec before any one has a chance to play a dominant. On a side note is there anything a judge can do to not let a good type 2 multi deck in the tournament? Forexample the bad figs deck. It seems to me that there should be somecheck since anyone can qualify for nationals. Perhaps the best way is to have them take a multi palyer startegy course that would consist of a documentary or something. Is it possible to make that a requirment for newr player planning on playing any multiplayer catagory?
