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<blockquote data-quote="TheAuldGrump" data-source="post: 2491362" data-attributes="member: 6957"><p>On the * - Then tie him up first.</p><p></p><p>As I said, read the Song of Roland, and for that matter read Le Morte de Artur - the primary sources regarding Paladins, a paladin may well believe that if the other person was justified in his actions then the paladin would lose the combat, having been judged by the gods. (This is the whole rationale for ordeal by combat. Rationale, not reason...) We are talking about a medieval paradigm, which is a different code of ethics than that practised today.</p><p></p><p>And how does 'kill him while he is sleeping' not equal might is right? The helpless opponent is by default rather less mighty than the one who is awake.</p><p></p><p>The difference between killing him after a sleep spell and with a Phantasmal Killer is 'Heat of Combat' Even today shooting an enemy soldier is acceptable, shooting prisoners is not. One is perhaps regretable, the other is an atrocity. In this regard the sleep spell takes him prisoner, the Phantasmal Killer is the equivelant of shooting him with a gun.</p><p></p><p>The Auld Grump</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheAuldGrump, post: 2491362, member: 6957"] On the * - Then tie him up first. As I said, read the Song of Roland, and for that matter read Le Morte de Artur - the primary sources regarding Paladins, a paladin may well believe that if the other person was justified in his actions then the paladin would lose the combat, having been judged by the gods. (This is the whole rationale for ordeal by combat. Rationale, not reason...) We are talking about a medieval paradigm, which is a different code of ethics than that practised today. And how does 'kill him while he is sleeping' not equal might is right? The helpless opponent is by default rather less mighty than the one who is awake. The difference between killing him after a sleep spell and with a Phantasmal Killer is 'Heat of Combat' Even today shooting an enemy soldier is acceptable, shooting prisoners is not. One is perhaps regretable, the other is an atrocity. In this regard the sleep spell takes him prisoner, the Phantasmal Killer is the equivelant of shooting him with a gun. The Auld Grump [/QUOTE]
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