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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 3328045" data-attributes="member: 9037">Why? Why does good have to respect the right of an evil being right to live. Do you think evil beings turn around and give good beings the right to live?Now I don't like when a paladin walks around with detect evil going off and then hacking down anyone who gets pinged as evil without the paladin first investigating why that person pinged.But paladins have a duty to protect innocents and that duty comes before protecting some evil creature right to life.I honestly don't get why so many people go out of their way to hog tie paladins the way they do. Paladins are usually holy warriors it is why they have a decent BAB, decent hitpoints can wear heavy armor and have martial skills.They have the ability to detect evil and the ability to smite evil why give them these abilties if they are not supposed to use them.Now if a character wants to play a paladin who isre about redeeming evil instead of smiting I can see the philosophy of evil creatures should have a chance at life so I need to redeem them so they don't harm any innocents.But to say all paladins have to follow this code is just IMO wrong and unfair to the player playing the paladin. And if a DM enforces this kind of behavior from a paladin then it is not fair to put the paladin in these kind of moral dilemmas.</blockquote>