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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Agemegos" data-source="post: 1568700" data-attributes="member: 18377">I am perfectly happy for the paladin to do without a jury, of peers or of anyone else. I agree that it may be lawful that that he be judge, jury, and executioner. I do not ask for wigs, gowns, advocates, or adversarial proceedings.What I do expect is that any Lawful character dispensing justice will think it proper to:1. Demonstrate that it is justice being done, not a private killing2. Demonstrate that appropriate steps have been taken to rule out the possibility that the accused is an innocent person taken in misleading circumstances. Hearing a defence and demonstrating that it is untrue or unsound would be a very good way to start.3. Treat the authority of the judge and the jury with respect, by discharging their duties with diligence and dmonstrating that they are not being abused to private ends.Circumstances may make these things impractical, but I submit that these circumstances did not.These requirements are not arbitrary. This things promote confidence in the authorites (such as paladins) and dissipate suspicions, so that people who feel themselves to be wronged will turn to the law for relief and not to feud. And they reassure innocent people who find themselves in suggestive circumstances that they will be safe in the hands of the authorities, and need not resort to flight or other desperate measures. They promote social solidarity, put an end to feud, foster respect for authority. That's what D&D calls Law, and it does not depend on the particulars of local law.</blockquote>

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