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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 2874812" data-attributes="member: 13966">Anything can be turned into a paladin thread.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />D&D has defined alignments and morality, not subjective morality, so no, paladins can't be suicide bombers.  That shows absolutely no respect for life and no honor.  There are no qualifiers in the alignment descriptions that say "these aspects are all subjective to the character's own point of view"; ergo, you can't validly say that 'respect for life' in the Good alignment description really means 'respect for life that shares my own personal views and ideals'.  Paladins are supposed to oppose torture, unfair punishment, and indiscriminate killing.  They can Detect Evil at will, so they have no excuse for being indiscriminate, and they are supposed to respect the laws of the land.  Punishments must fit the crime and such.  So if the Player's Handbook paladin charges into a group of random, supposedly-evil (or confirmed evil) folks and blows himself up to take them out, he'd lose his paladinhood before finishing the act; no Divine Grace to help him survive the blast.  It's not an honorable way to fight, anyway.</blockquote>