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<blockquote data-quote="Timeboxer" data-source="post: 3136808" data-attributes="member: 21471"><p>I chose a warning, mostly because... well, let me try to explain.</p><p></p><p>Paladins stand for honor and justice and whatnot. They stand in the light. Working in the shadows is somewhat counter to what paladins usually stand for. Now, it makes <em>sense</em> to claim to not be a paladin in this case. You get the job done and do the good deed.</p><p></p><p>But the thing is, paladins stand for more than practicality -- they stand for an ideal. And claiming to not be a paladin somewhat violates that ideal. It's a bit like knifing someone in the back, but on perhaps a larger scale. It might be more expedient to not claim to be a paladin, but doing so involves, at least to some extent, a degree of subterfuge.</p><p></p><p>So it seems to me that what it comes down to is, as Tom Russell wrote on Monitor Duty the other day, "is it better to maintain moral high-ground or to deal with day to day realities?" I would argue that for a paladin, the former is more important than for your average LG character.</p><p></p><p>So, a warning. Trivial enough to not have powers stripped, but you have to be careful not to travel too far down the path. (This seems to be the same reason why Nightsong Enforcers and the like are seen as "on the edge.")</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Timeboxer, post: 3136808, member: 21471"] I chose a warning, mostly because... well, let me try to explain. Paladins stand for honor and justice and whatnot. They stand in the light. Working in the shadows is somewhat counter to what paladins usually stand for. Now, it makes [i]sense[/i] to claim to not be a paladin in this case. You get the job done and do the good deed. But the thing is, paladins stand for more than practicality -- they stand for an ideal. And claiming to not be a paladin somewhat violates that ideal. It's a bit like knifing someone in the back, but on perhaps a larger scale. It might be more expedient to not claim to be a paladin, but doing so involves, at least to some extent, a degree of subterfuge. So it seems to me that what it comes down to is, as Tom Russell wrote on Monitor Duty the other day, "is it better to maintain moral high-ground or to deal with day to day realities?" I would argue that for a paladin, the former is more important than for your average LG character. So, a warning. Trivial enough to not have powers stripped, but you have to be careful not to travel too far down the path. (This seems to be the same reason why Nightsong Enforcers and the like are seen as "on the edge.") [/QUOTE]
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