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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4941250" data-attributes="member: 19675">With the OT Paladin, the justification for &quot;Why did you kill X?&quot; basically goes as follows:1) The Paladin is judge, jury and executioner (JJ&amp;E), set upon a divine mission to destroy evil.2) Unless the Paladin has concrete &amp; incontrovertible evidence* that the being in question has truly repented its evil ways, the only being the Paladin knows he can trust to verify the truth of the repentance is his divine mentor- his deity.3) If the repentance is true, the deity may intervene and miraculously spare the being slated for execution.4) If the repentance is true, the deity may choose not to intervene, and the slain creature dies in a state of innocence, and is sent to a higher plane of existence.5) If the repentance is false, evil is removed from the world via the exectution.*Remember that Detect Evil doesn't qualify as proof: a creature with the Evil subtype will detect as evil and be affected by things as if evil, even if the creature's actual alignment has changed to neutral or good.&nbsp; And just as importantly, the opposite is true- an Evil creature with the Good subtype will detect as good.<a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/typesSubtypes.htm#evilSubtype" target="_blank">Types &amp; Subtypes :: d20srd.org</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 4941250, member: 19675"] With the OT Paladin, the justification for "Why did you kill X?" basically goes as follows: 1) The Paladin is judge, jury and executioner (JJ&E), set upon a divine mission to destroy evil. 2) Unless the Paladin has concrete & incontrovertible evidence* that the being in question has truly repented its evil ways, the only being the Paladin knows he can trust to verify the truth of the repentance is his divine mentor- his deity. 3) If the repentance is true, the deity may intervene and miraculously spare the being slated for execution. 4) If the repentance is true, the deity may choose not to intervene, and the slain creature dies in a state of innocence, and is sent to a higher plane of existence. 5) If the repentance is false, evil is removed from the world via the exectution. *Remember that Detect Evil doesn't qualify as proof: a creature with the Evil subtype will detect as evil and be affected by things as if evil, even if the creature's actual alignment has changed to neutral or good. And just as importantly, the opposite is true- [I]an Evil creature with the Good subtype will detect as good.[/I] [url=http://www.d20srd.org/srd/typesSubtypes.htm#evilSubtype]Types & Subtypes :: d20srd.org[/url] [/QUOTE]

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