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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Smackfish" data-source="post: 2712936" data-attributes="member: 33112">Let me preface what I'm about to say with a quick disclaimer: I'm not taking sides as to whether what the paladin did in this case was right or wrong for a paladin, or whether there should be a punishment or what the punishment should be.That having been said, unless I misread the OP, there's a point being missed that I think deserves consideration, ie, that when the cleric comes to tell the Paladin his wife's ok, it seems like this is the first time the Paladin knows his wife's been assaulted. So picture if you will, the paladin is dowstairs, it's late at night, he's been disturbed from his rest by this halfling who now won't tell him why, he already has some reason to be concerned for his wife (why else ask a friend to guard her?), and things with the halfling have already started to get physical (This confuses me a bit too, but they have). All of the sudden his cleric friend comes bolting down the stairs and says "Your wife's been assaulted, but she's ok."Now, I don't know about how I would react in a similar situation, but I suspect that I would hear the first part very loudly and the last part very softly or not at all.  I don't know for sure if that's clear, so let me restate it another way, I think that by the time the cleric gets to "But she's ok." I would have if at all possible already done whatever i was going to do to the halfling and be running up the stairs.  In the mind of a husband and father, from my understanding, the second part of that sentence doesn't matter, someone's tried to hurt my wife and child, i have to get to them and whatever's in my way be damned.  My friend may say they're ok, but to me theyre not until i've seen it with my own eyes.That is the reaction i view from a normal person, whether or not that is acceptable from a paladin very much depends on what you think a paladin is.Just my two cents.Edit: grammar</blockquote>

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