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<blockquote data-quote="Grymar" data-source="post: 3367218" data-attributes="member: 41371">To be honest, I wasn't talking about paladins...they go by a whole different set of rules.&nbsp;&nbsp; I was speaking more of clerics and fighters of the Silver Flame who participated in the purge.&nbsp;&nbsp; A LG cleric could have slaughtered a whole village of good aligned lycanthrope children and not risked an alignment shift...she was following orders and killing what she had been taught was an inherent evil, morally corrupting.&nbsp; I argue that a paladin can't just kill evil creatures by default period because he is held to a higher standard (this applies to everyone, not just those in the church).&nbsp; If he sees an evil innkeeper, he can't leap over the bar and behead him.&nbsp;&nbsp; Even if he saw the innkeeper overcharging or stealing, he would talk to him about the darkness in his soul or at worst arrest him, not kill him.&nbsp; &nbsp; In other words, with the exception of paladins, alignment is not binding.&nbsp; It is a loose descriptor of past actions and a moderately good predictor of future actions.&nbsp; I'm probably explaining this terribly, so excuse whatever doesn't make sense.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Grymar, post: 3367218, member: 41371"] To be honest, I wasn't talking about paladins...they go by a whole different set of rules. I was speaking more of clerics and fighters of the Silver Flame who participated in the purge. A LG cleric could have slaughtered a whole village of good aligned lycanthrope children and not risked an alignment shift...she was following orders and killing what she had been taught was an inherent evil, morally corrupting. I argue that a paladin can't just kill evil creatures by default period because he is held to a higher standard (this applies to everyone, not just those in the church). If he sees an evil innkeeper, he can't leap over the bar and behead him. Even if he saw the innkeeper overcharging or stealing, he would talk to him about the darkness in his soul or at worst arrest him, not kill him. In other words, with the exception of paladins, alignment is not binding. It is a loose descriptor of past actions and a moderately good predictor of future actions. I'm probably explaining this terribly, so excuse whatever doesn't make sense. [/QUOTE]

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