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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SHARK" data-source="post: 446534" data-attributes="member: 1131">Greetings!O, Behold the Dragon's roar! Behold the dragon's eloquent speech!<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=":)" />I agree with you entirely my friend! Great post!It's this squishy nonsense that somehow, pacifism is supposed to "win the day" when that is patently nonsense. Vampire Lords and Demon kings will just grind your silly pathetic corpses up, and laugh as they proceed to conquer and rape all that fall before their armies!There is nothing to be gained from weeping, from begging, from "negotiating" or attempting some pathetic display of "moral superiority" by refusing to fight. All that displays is that one is fodder for the black cavalry as they ride over your prostrate form, laughing.Such a pathetic display has proven nothing.Such a display has defeated noone.Such a display has freed none from the shackles of tyranny.Such a display doesn't even provide hope to the forces of good, for as they are being trampled, as they are being raped, as they are being shackled in slavery, they can but recall the forces that were supposed to fight and kill the forces of Darkness, instead just held up their hands and whined about "love and peace" while forgetting that peace is only achieved by those ready and willing to fight for it. If something is not worth fighting for, then it is not worth living for. Real world history--analogous to fantasy history--is flush with examples of smaller, weaker peoples being crushed and exterminated by those who are more ferocious and stronger than they. They were crushed by those who had more, and were willing to do more. The defeated nations and tribes, many of which are not remembered by anyone. They have been defeated, and they are dust and ashes in the wind. Even history has forgotten most of the names of the weaker, smaller tribes and nations that failed to fight effectively in defending themselves.How can pacifistic paladins even survive in such a grim and brutal world? Surely the vampire lords and demon legions would seek to stack the deck so that the paladin's pathetic little philosophy can be bent and twisted at just the right point in time of battle to cause the paladin to either be annihilated, or cause to fall from their paladinhood, because somewhere in the heavens there are Game Masters that are clapping their hands with joy at the slightest pretext to strip the paladin down. It seems that only with plot protection can such a philosophy work for a paladin, for otherwise, it would be ruthlessly exploited to the fullest by the forces of Darkness. That's the thing though--paladins aren't fighting in a world full of people that wait until after teatime at noon to fight the paladin in a gentlemanly game of golf.No, paladins exist in a world where their enemies should exploit the paladin at every opportunity if they subscribe to such a crippling, illogical philosophy. In some ways, such a philosophy would lead to the extermination of everyone who embraces it, because the only way that some people could embrace such a philosophy is if they are afforded such a nice luxury by millions of people who are willing to do what they are not--that is getting down into the dark, into the terror, into the blood and fire of war, and fighting against the forces of Darkness, sometimes making the hard, ugly, savage choices that must be made to win, because war is not waged by nice neat rules. The enemy is using all of their resources, in whatever way that they can, to win, and to win every time they can. The forces of good must be strong, and they must hold fast to the determination to win and conquer the forces of Darkness, no matter the cost, no matter the terror, and no matter the price in blood.Paladins should always lead the charge! Paladins should be the ones sounding the horn to war, they should be the ones that are willing to lead the columns of knights in a march to Hell if need be! Paladins should be using their intelligence, their skills, their troops, and their resources to win the battle, whether by night, by day, by fire, or by sword, battleaxe, or teeth. When the dawn arrives, and the sun shines upon the bloody battlefield, littered with the dead and the moaning of the dying, the paladins should be standing upright, astride the knights of darkness, who lay cast down in defeat!The horn calls the paladin ever to the righteous war!<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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