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My Paladin killed a child molester (and now my DM wants to take away my powers!)
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<blockquote data-quote="Feyd Rautha" data-source="post: 1565225" data-attributes="member: 19364"><p>Redemption is not the issue. Yes, a paladin should always strive to bring the stray members of the flock back into the fold, but if that fails then it is up to god to punish. Also, this is NOT a case of irredeemable evil. Someone else noted that there could very well have been a ruse or magical compulsion driving the "molestor". While it is unlikely, what would we all be saying if the guy who was the assumed molestor was under a dominate person or worse yet possessed by some evil? What if he was the girls loving father who was unfortunate enough to come across some great evil??? We wouldn't be having this discussion. The simple fact of the matter is that we'll never know. By blindly killing and slaughtering what he SEES as evil, a much greater evil could escape justice. He did the wrong thing. He should be stripped of his powers. The GM should require an atonement. And in my game, the atonement would be to rehabilitate an offender who would otherwise be put to death. (I'm not naive and thinking that sex offenders can be rehabilitated. They cannot.)</p><p></p><p>The main issue here is that of the paladin as a concerned citizen/lawman and the paladin as executioner. I wouldn't even say judge and jury in most of your interpretations so that's a bit of a problem. Anyway, Paladin posts will go round for round for round with little or no resolution so I'm signing off of this one. At some point maybe you all will just agree to disagree. Although I think a poll would have been a much better idea so each person could get one vote and that would be the standard instead of whoever took it upon himself to flood the board with posts...</p><p></p><p>Peace,</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Feyd Rautha, post: 1565225, member: 19364"] Redemption is not the issue. Yes, a paladin should always strive to bring the stray members of the flock back into the fold, but if that fails then it is up to god to punish. Also, this is NOT a case of irredeemable evil. Someone else noted that there could very well have been a ruse or magical compulsion driving the "molestor". While it is unlikely, what would we all be saying if the guy who was the assumed molestor was under a dominate person or worse yet possessed by some evil? What if he was the girls loving father who was unfortunate enough to come across some great evil??? We wouldn't be having this discussion. The simple fact of the matter is that we'll never know. By blindly killing and slaughtering what he SEES as evil, a much greater evil could escape justice. He did the wrong thing. He should be stripped of his powers. The GM should require an atonement. And in my game, the atonement would be to rehabilitate an offender who would otherwise be put to death. (I'm not naive and thinking that sex offenders can be rehabilitated. They cannot.) The main issue here is that of the paladin as a concerned citizen/lawman and the paladin as executioner. I wouldn't even say judge and jury in most of your interpretations so that's a bit of a problem. Anyway, Paladin posts will go round for round for round with little or no resolution so I'm signing off of this one. At some point maybe you all will just agree to disagree. Although I think a poll would have been a much better idea so each person could get one vote and that would be the standard instead of whoever took it upon himself to flood the board with posts... Peace, [/QUOTE]
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