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Paladin just committed murder - what should happen next?
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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7815433" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>Because you are focusing on the wrong element of the scenario. The moral failing of the Paladin is that they entered in to the agreement. They put someone else's life ahead of their own, and allowed someone else to die in their stead with no agreement from that person. As someone else put it, "A wounded man, a dragon, and a paladin took a vote on which would be eaten."</p><p></p><p>The paladin didn't resist evil. The paladin didn't even try to negotiate the terms - for example offering his own life in the man's stead. Everything about the paladin's philosophy screams utilitarian self-centeredness.</p><p></p><p>It's not that the paladin is required to throw his life away. He doesn't have to jump into a river to try to save a drowning man while he's wearing platemail, or jump off a cliff in the hope a miracle will happen. But he does have to resist evil and not enter into a bargain with it.</p><p></p><p>I've already in this thread given what I thought the equivalent scenarios are.</p><p></p><p>Steve Rogers would not have stood by and done nothing. Arnaud Beltram would not have stood by and done nothing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7815433, member: 4937"] Because you are focusing on the wrong element of the scenario. The moral failing of the Paladin is that they entered in to the agreement. They put someone else's life ahead of their own, and allowed someone else to die in their stead with no agreement from that person. As someone else put it, "A wounded man, a dragon, and a paladin took a vote on which would be eaten." The paladin didn't resist evil. The paladin didn't even try to negotiate the terms - for example offering his own life in the man's stead. Everything about the paladin's philosophy screams utilitarian self-centeredness. It's not that the paladin is required to throw his life away. He doesn't have to jump into a river to try to save a drowning man while he's wearing platemail, or jump off a cliff in the hope a miracle will happen. But he does have to resist evil and not enter into a bargain with it. I've already in this thread given what I thought the equivalent scenarios are. Steve Rogers would not have stood by and done nothing. Arnaud Beltram would not have stood by and done nothing. [/QUOTE]
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