Imaro
Legend
Which I can't do in a mechanical alignment setting because, in mechanical alignment, one of those two HAS to be wrong. They can't both be right. Either it's honourable, thus in keeping with alignment adjudication, or it isn't. There cannot be any ambiguity.
This is where your logic breaks down for me...
Mechanical alignment has nothing to do with whether one is honorable or not... there is no honorable alignment... there are alignments which place more or less emphasis on traits some would consider honorable (of course what is or isn't honorable is dependent on numerous factors such as culture, one's order or religion, codes or oaths sworn, etc)..
As far as classes are concerned being honorable is, IMO, is centered mostly around a paladin's code (since in most editions he can loose his powers for not following it) as opposed to alignment and that is something that should be well defined enough (whether by player or DM) that a player and DM know when a character has done a dishonorable deed (per the code).
EDIT: In other words while 3.x gives a baseline code for the paladin... I'm not seeing why a paladin in either a game with mechanical alignment or without cannot decide what is and isn't honorable according to his own code (and I believe that 3.x and 2e do allow for alternate paladin codes)... as opposed to what is or isn't LG?
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