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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Agemegos" data-source="post: 1567523" data-attributes="member: 18377">I disagree. The role of the judge is to ensure that there is a fair and open trial, in which the every effort is made to discover the truth. The role of the jury is to hear both sides impartially and to render an impartial verdict. The point of doing it that way is not just to reach a verdict, and not even just to reach a correct verdict. The point is also to demonstrate openly that the authorities are not abusing their power, to assure the community that if they have any complaints that the authorities will settle them fairly so that the principals need not seek private vengeance, and to reassure anyone who is accused in misleding circumstances that he or she will be able to establish his or her innocence, and need not resort ot flight or other desperate measures. And I maintain that belief that these things are very important are what distinguishes the Lawful Good from their Neutral Good and Chaotic Good fellows.Most unlikely. It will not have been done to the satisfaction of the rapists friends and relatives, and there may be a great many other people in the community who are generally suspicious of authority figures: they will not have been convinced either. Perhaps some of these suspicions can be laid if the paladin stands his trial for manslaughter (and although the victim may mercifully be considered too young to bear witness, there is no hope in the event of that trial that the secret of her rape will be concealed). But as long as the event is remembered some people will wonder "what did he know that They were afraid he would tell us?".Well, I am not one of the 'nerf the paladin' posters, and I have not made that erroneous supposition. So let's not reply to my post on the basis that I concur with a view expressed by a mere majority of a group that I am not in this case a member of.</blockquote>

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