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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fenes 2" data-source="post: 444858" data-attributes="member: 6166">I would not consider lawful good the same as pacifistic good. We are not dealing with a society in the 21st century, we are dealing with a harsh world where there exists an absolute evil. "Good" in the D&D sense does not mean that you have no death penalty or other harsh punishments for crimes.I do not see paladins as adapting to societies that represent most of what they fight against. A "standard" paladin arriving on Gor will probably not adapt to a society that degrades women to that extreme, and promotes a brutal "might makes right" attitude. Instead he will do what he can to change that society, perhaps gathering like-minded people around him and strike out on his own, or start a (maybe shortlived) campaign against the "packleaders". I also doubt that a paladin, a chosen warrior of a god, would choose not to change such a society as that of gor through war - it may be better to wreak havoc for some years than to let those atrocities continue unchecked, dooming uncounted men and women to a wretched exsitence in slavery. And that is just a standard male paladin. Now imagine a LG female paladin on Gor... do you really expect her "to adapt" to such a society?Kender are another problem. Even if they are not evil themselves, stealing is not good, nor is giving in to thieves good. If they cannot learn to curb their ways then they may be impossible to function in civilized society. In order to protect the other members of society a paladin may try to get kenders banned. I know that if we had such kleptomaniacs in modern society we would not simply accept their ways, but protect ourselves from those thieves by imprisoning them in asylums, since they are obviously mentally unable to respect the laws of our society.Lawful good does not have to mean either friendly or polite, nor does it mean you have to compromise your principles - just that the person is looking out for the greater good instead of looking out for number one.</blockquote>

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