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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wrahn" data-source="post: 3703979" data-attributes="member: 9191">Robocop is closer to Lawful Neutral than Lawful Good.  (At least in the first movie)If all else fails, I believe the paladin is intended to be more good then they are lawful.  Their code prohibits them from associating with evil people, but may freely associate with chaotic, they smite and detect evil, not chaos.  If there is a conflict between their Ethos (Law/Chaos axis) and Morality (Good/Evil axis) then I believe they should go with the good.  Save the slave and try to make amends legally in the above example.  I certainly know that I would not punish a paladin for doing such.Of course if the paladin was sneaking into the evil city to free the princess and saw the slave being beaten to death and did nothing... Well I would probably not strip him of his status either, but I would make sure his conscious played on him, but then I would have been kind of a jerk to have put the paladin in the situation of putting his party and mission in danger versus saving the innocent to begin with.In the end, a paladin has enough trouble with the right thing being the stupid thing that I believe straightjacketing them into having to obey a Chaotic Evil authority figure is just down right mean spirited.Taken to extremes, a paladin would lose his status if a Demon had enslaved a village and when the paladin came to stop him, the demon tossed him a baby and told him to eat it.  If he doesn't he is not following the "legitimate" authority (ruler of the village, the villagers all accept his rule, because if they don't they will die), if he does he is commiting a horrific act (cannabilism and murder).</blockquote>

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