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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdrakeh" data-source="post: 2715761" data-attributes="member: 13892">Murder was  only a bit on the harsh side?!?!? Man, I'd hate to see what your idea of straight-up Evil is... oh, wait. That's right... assisting in a plot to accost somebody is evil so vile that it demands punishment by death! But murder? Eh, that's only 'a bit harsh'. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> [Edit: I could be wrong, but this paints a picture of a world where clergy are free to murder, rape, loot and pillage in the name of their good god, and where non-ordained citizens are subject to being murdered, raped, looted, and pillaged merely for not being ordained. Ironically, this is a pretty accurate description of certain periods in out own history, but I really don't see where the Paladin's Code or Lawful Good alignment in D&D support this scenario at all, despite many arguments made to the contrary on this thread.People making the 'license to kill' Paladin argument are making the exact same argument that the Church made to justify The Crusades. 'We believe them evil, therefore it is okay to dehumanize/murder/rape/loot them. And we do so in the good name of out Lord, therefore it can only be just!' - an argument that the Church has long since retracted as being in error.]</blockquote>

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