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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6913463" data-attributes="member: 4937">In Rokugan, if it were true that it was also honorable to kill the peasant that just drew steel on a Samurai, it would also be true that the Samurai had the legally recognized authority to act as judge, jury, and executioner in such cases.But this only establishes that Samurai's have a legal right and obligation to "dispense justice".  It doesn't establish that it is necessarily good for them to do so, or even that in the source material (real world Japanese culture), a Samurai whose honor was already above question, might grant mercy to someone and be deemed honorable for doing so.  Japanese stories are filled with examples of characters who receive mercy that they did not deserve (for whatever excuse the protagonist has), and then are pierced by this act and try to atone for their dishonorable ways.</blockquote>