I think it all comes down to the type of actions and the people doing it. As has been said, there needs to be SOME kind of OOC discussion between participants to ensure no god modding occurs. But aside from that, the more innocuous things come down to simple common sense. Like Seph and others said, Anslo wouldn't try to plant a kiss on Samira regardless of how attractive he is because he (character) and I (player) know damn well how Amarr folk would react to that.
That's not saying it's never done, some people still do it just for shits and giggles and to see what happens, but it isn't like say...
* Anslol tightens his right arm to flick out his implanted piezo-blade and slices Sepherim in half for enslaving his ((non-existant)) daughter.
No bueno.
tl;dr (imo): Fair RP is making sure the bigger actions (a fight, a steal, kidnapping, murder, etc) are discussed OOC first to be balanced based on a characters already established background. Other more innocuous things (a kiss, a bottle toss, maybe even a punch in some cases) can be played by ear with people who've known each other a bit IG. Failing that, permission OOC should probably be touched on just to not rustle jimmies.
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