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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 2314341" data-attributes="member: 29014">"Who decides what is justice?" Lasair asks "If Phineus's young and innocent daughter hunts you down and kills you on the road because she is looking for the murderer who slaughtered her father and forced her mother into prostitution to pay for the family, she believes that she has brought justice.  And I guess she could take all of your things as well.  You and I wouldn't agree with her, but the starving villagers whose money you are taking to buy a new shortsword or the like in order to kill more people are unlikely to give you a blessing when you walk into their village a few weeks later with you new shortsword and announce 'I killed the bandits, and look at the new sword I bought with the money I found!' as they huddle over the corpse of their infant son who starved to death because they didn't have enough money to feed him--the money from selling their goods for the season was lost on the road to a group of bandits."  "I do not dispute that ending the bandits' predations was a good thing.  Banditry is not the right way, and I would lend my spear to your aid every time in battle against bandits.  However, taking the money of innocents for ourselves and feeling entitled to do so has crossed the line, in my opinion."</blockquote>