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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Agemegos" data-source="post: 1566701" data-attributes="member: 18377">Conduct unbecoming to a paladin: GuiltyMy lords, it is with great reluctance that I vote to condemn a fellow man. And yet I know full well that the calling of a paladin ofttimes demands that hard choices be made with great urgency and too little knowledge. If I am in such a case, and act in the best of good faith, and turn out to be wrong, I hope not to be condemned. Does that not mean that if I act in bad faith or with unjustified haste, the chance that I turn out to be right cannot acquit me? We must judge our brother on his actions in his circumstances, not on their result.I cannot in accordance with my oath declare that it is becoming in a paladin to strike down a defenceless man, from behind, without warning.I cannot in accordance with my oath declare that it is becoming in a paladin to hold a trial in such shabby, disgraceful, unedifying circumstances, with so little regard for propriety and due form.I cannot in accordance with my oath declare that it is becoming in a paladin to pass judgement without allowing the defence to speak.I cannot in accordance with my oath declare that it is becoming in a paladin to kill when it is not needful to do so.I cannot in accordance with my oath declare that it is becoming in a paladin to give up hope in the justice of the courts without he has put them to the test.And thereore upon my conscience I must declare that he is guilty: of conduct unbecoming in a paladin. And may God have mercy upon both our souls.</blockquote>

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