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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sundragon2012" data-source="post: 2552952" data-attributes="member: 7624">Allow me to quote myself to clarify my position:"In regards to paladins or knightly types I believe it would be their code that prevents them from killing non-combatants and not merely the concerns of alignment.I think that personal codes of conduct are a believable rationale as to why a paladin would not killing bawling orc babes....it is beneath the dignity of his station to do so. The soft sensibilites of our era IMO would have nothing to do with it. However, regular soldiers of whatever alignment, would not be so bound save by personal conviction or the commands of their superiors."I am agreeing with you.And to clarify I don't believe personally that good = stupid, I just feel that it is often portrayed that way. Remove those with their personal chivalric codes from the discussion for a moment, we are still left with regular Joe soldiers and warriors who would be considered to be acting in an evil fashion by actively preventing a renewal of an orc threat by cutting off its head. For non-paladins and non-knights, the greater evil is allowing your own innocent to die at the hands of creatures you know will return as soon as their numbers recover from the most recent conflict. Burn the villages and you save your children and wives and your neighbors children and wives from having to go to war in another 10-15yrs against another threat built upon the foundation of your sentimentalism.That isn't good, its dumb. That is my point.Chris</blockquote>

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