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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SHARK" data-source="post: 438376" data-attributes="member: 1131">Greetings!JBrowning, sir, that is an excellent post!<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Very articulate, and incisive to the nature of the problems and quandaries faced! I might also add that in such a circumstance, if the paladin fails to requisition the wheat from the peasants in the countryside, that his companions, his soldiers--who are trusting him to come up with food for them as they struggle to survive in hostile territory, may also die if the paladin does not requistion such food for them. Thus, they die because the paladin failed to requisition the wheat from the peasants. In addition, a paladin not obeying the orders of the King--the man rightfully appointed to be his sovereign by Divine Right--geez, that can't score high marks for a paladin that is *Lawful Good* no matter what, heh?<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> The King is either obeyed, or he is not. That might have religious implications as well. Either the soldiers fighting evil die, or the peasants, living in the evil land, die. The paladin must choose, and there isn't a lot of time to think about it. Lets say that the paladin has three days or a week. That's it. And many of the troops are suffering from disease, as well, and are weakening as they march through the forbidding land of the evil kingdom...Not very many points of comfort here, that's for sure. Oh, and the paladin must also answer the wives, children, and parents of the soldiers back home, if he chooses the peasants over them..."You let my husband die WHY? My father died in that foreign land, and he trusted you, and you did what?" and so on. Not pretty at all. Still, those people are looking for the paladin to bring their men home alive if possible, and not so much worried about morally comfortable he is with himself. That's a conflict of the *ideal* over the *real* Obeying some sense of morality in that sense, exists in the ideal, as an ideal, whereas a person living or dying, is real, in the right now, and it effects other people. If that makes any sense?Good stuff!<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Semper Fidelis,SHARK</blockquote>

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