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<blockquote data-quote="Gammadoodler" data-source="post: 7746142" data-attributes="member: 6914290"><p>So, "Here's what I think a paladin is". "RPG paladins may vary from this description"."Who cares?"</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It may not be a self-conscious act of law-making, but it is a self-conscious act of law-breaking. Further, if he is indeed drawing on "charismatic authority," it is a law-breaking which only he can commit and continue to call it "lawful." Still further, from a Yale sociology lecture on Weber and charismatic authority:</p><p></p><p><a href="https://oyc.yale.edu/sociology/socy-151/lecture-19" target="_blank">https://oyc.yale.edu/sociology/socy-151/lecture-19</a></p><p></p><p><em>Charismatic authority, unlike traditional authority, is a revolutionary and unstable form of authority. Weber borrows the religious term of charisma and extends its use to a secular meaning. Audiences and followers believe that charismatic leaders have a close connection to a divine power, have exceptional skills, or are exemplary in some way. Charismatic leaders promise change in the future for the society and also change people’s attitudes and values; in this way, charismatic authority is revolutionary in a way that traditional and legal-rational authority are not. </em></p><p></p><p>I suspect we are getting into semantics here, but it from an alignment perspective, this sounds more like "chaotic". </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Correct. Is it odd to assume that a character seeking to adhere absolutely to a set of idealized values in a less then ideal world would have to be some combination of foolish, naive, utopian, etc.? Even Camelot was no stranger to scandal.</p><p></p><p>Edit: I should further clarify that I don't believe that there is anything wrong with being any of these things.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gammadoodler, post: 7746142, member: 6914290"] So, "Here's what I think a paladin is". "RPG paladins may vary from this description"."Who cares?" It may not be a self-conscious act of law-making, but it is a self-conscious act of law-breaking. Further, if he is indeed drawing on "charismatic authority," it is a law-breaking which only he can commit and continue to call it "lawful." Still further, from a Yale sociology lecture on Weber and charismatic authority: [URL]https://oyc.yale.edu/sociology/socy-151/lecture-19[/URL] [I]Charismatic authority, unlike traditional authority, is a revolutionary and unstable form of authority. Weber borrows the religious term of charisma and extends its use to a secular meaning. Audiences and followers believe that charismatic leaders have a close connection to a divine power, have exceptional skills, or are exemplary in some way. Charismatic leaders promise change in the future for the society and also change people’s attitudes and values; in this way, charismatic authority is revolutionary in a way that traditional and legal-rational authority are not. [/I] I suspect we are getting into semantics here, but it from an alignment perspective, this sounds more like "chaotic". Correct. Is it odd to assume that a character seeking to adhere absolutely to a set of idealized values in a less then ideal world would have to be some combination of foolish, naive, utopian, etc.? Even Camelot was no stranger to scandal. Edit: I should further clarify that I don't believe that there is anything wrong with being any of these things. [/QUOTE]
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