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<blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 574238" data-attributes="member: 707">No more than you can, I suppose. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I'm not.&nbsp; My point is that paladins battle evil without mercy.&nbsp; Meaning they fight evil until it is destroyed, not until the evil surrenders, at which point the paladin mercifully withholds the killing stroke and sends the evil away to be reformed.&nbsp; This mercilessness is validated by the quote given, that the iconic paladin herself is described in such terms.It means nothing of the sort.&nbsp; You seem to have completely ignored my points regarding both respect not equating to obedience, and legitimacy being a subjective quality. &quot;Of course,&quot; the two precepts of paladinhood, respect of legitimate authority and merciless destruction of evil, are not connected in a prime/subordinate clause way.&nbsp; It would be just as unfounded to say a paladin must &quot;respect legitimate authority&quot; so long as that authority allows them to &quot;battle evil without mercy.&quot;You've chosen to interpret &quot;respect legitimate authority&quot; to mean follow every law, and further chosen to make that particular precept of the paladin's code more significant than others.&nbsp; Which is fine.&nbsp; But those are house rules for your game and your game alone, not RAW.I responded to everything in your post.&nbsp; But I wasn't about to let your comments by without note.&nbsp; I liked your &quot;let's try this again&quot; and &quot;with me so far?&quot; in your last post, too.&nbsp; A nice, thin veneer of condescension to cover up the holes in your argument.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lord Pendragon, post: 574238, member: 707"] No more than you can, I suppose. ;)I'm not. My point is that paladins battle evil without mercy. Meaning they fight evil until it is destroyed, not until the evil surrenders, at which point the paladin mercifully withholds the killing stroke and sends the evil away to be reformed. This mercilessness is validated by the quote given, that the iconic paladin herself is described in such terms.It means nothing of the sort. You seem to have completely ignored my points regarding both respect not equating to obedience, and legitimacy being a subjective quality. "Of course," the two precepts of paladinhood, respect of legitimate authority and merciless destruction of evil, are not connected in a prime/subordinate clause way. It would be just as unfounded to say a paladin must "respect legitimate authority" so long as that authority allows them to "battle evil without mercy." You've chosen to interpret "respect legitimate authority" to mean follow every law, and further chosen to make that particular precept of the paladin's code more significant than others. Which is fine. But those are house rules for your game and your game alone, not RAW.I responded to everything in your post. But I wasn't about to let your comments by without note. I liked your "let's try this again" and "with me so far?" in your last post, too. A nice, thin veneer of condescension to cover up the holes in your argument. [/QUOTE]

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