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<blockquote data-quote="Embermage" data-source="post: 5617974" data-attributes="member: 85312">We've gotten off on quite a tangent regarding the right/authority/power of a paladin to have random citizens arrested/questioned/smited for violations of his spider sense.&nbsp; There are plenty of reasons that a paladin's evildar would fail to convince authorities of a random person's guilt, as numerous other folks have already pointed out.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; But that wasn't the inconsistency that was initially brought up.&nbsp; The problem was evil members of good-aligned churches.&nbsp; As folks have pointed out, clerics radiate their deity's alignment, but the vast majority of clergy in Eberron are not clerics.&nbsp; How do they get away with it?&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; I got all fired up to lay out a scenarioin which a paladin spots an evil-aligned monk or expert working within a good-aligned church, and how if he has half a brain he would inform the man's superior of his suspicions.&nbsp; Higher-ups would pay extra attention to the evildoer, eventually catching him in whatever perfidy made him evil.&nbsp; But the more I thought about it, the more that scenario makes perfect sense.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; The paladin points out an evil member of the clergy to his superiors.&nbsp; So what?&nbsp; The response of a good-aligned cleric shouldn't be to cast the man out of the church for his sins, but rather to make an effort to redeem him before he reaches the moral event horizon.&nbsp; Informed of an evil monk amongst his flock, the abbot's response is likely to be along the lines of &quot;yes, he is deeply burdened by his sin, but where better for him to find the light but here?&quot;&nbsp; The other monks probably already know about Brother Steals-from-the-collection-plate, and watch him as a result.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; I retract my earlier comments.&nbsp; Black sheep among the fold work fine for me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Embermage, post: 5617974, member: 85312"] We've gotten off on quite a tangent regarding the right/authority/power of a paladin to have random citizens arrested/questioned/smited for violations of his spider sense. There are plenty of reasons that a paladin's evildar would fail to convince authorities of a random person's guilt, as numerous other folks have already pointed out. But that wasn't the inconsistency that was initially brought up. The problem was evil members of good-aligned churches. As folks have pointed out, clerics radiate their deity's alignment, but the vast majority of clergy in Eberron are not clerics. How do they get away with it? I got all fired up to lay out a scenarioin which a paladin spots an evil-aligned monk or expert working within a good-aligned church, and how if he has half a brain he would inform the man's superior of his suspicions. Higher-ups would pay extra attention to the evildoer, eventually catching him in whatever perfidy made him evil. But the more I thought about it, the more that scenario makes perfect sense. The paladin points out an evil member of the clergy to his superiors. So what? The response of a good-aligned cleric shouldn't be to cast the man out of the church for his sins, but rather to make an effort to redeem him before he reaches the moral event horizon. Informed of an evil monk amongst his flock, the abbot's response is likely to be along the lines of "yes, he is deeply burdened by his sin, but where better for him to find the light but here?" The other monks probably already know about Brother Steals-from-the-collection-plate, and watch him as a result. I retract my earlier comments. Black sheep among the fold work fine for me. [/QUOTE]

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