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<blockquote data-quote="Ridley's Cohort" data-source="post: 3136382" data-attributes="member: 545">You are imposing modern Western ideals on a rough and tumble fantasy world.&nbsp;&nbsp; In the larger world today it is not rare for criminal gangs to be rooted out by a lethal hail of machine gun fire from a military style assault on an entire building, killing everyone therein.&nbsp; Innocents?&nbsp; A sad thing that, but it is a price the populace accepts for law and order.That is part of the fun of a being a justice-dealing-do-gooder.&nbsp; Sometimes there is negative fallout.&nbsp; Has nothing to do with the Paladin, per se.&nbsp; Heros and villains alike have a knack for making enemies.&quot;Guilt by association&quot; is one (of many) traditionally accepted means of assessing culpability.&nbsp; It is still accepted in most of the world, and I am afraid it has not exactly fallen completely out of fashion in modern Western societies.Under such a moral viewpoint, truly innocent people who happen to hang out with evil people is a logical impossiblity.&nbsp; Genuinely good-hearted people know that association with evil sullies them, and that they may end up paying with their lives for their guilt if they fail to find a means of atonement by their own efforts and initiative.&nbsp; Good people whose lot places them in the company of evil men know their should fear Paladins.&nbsp; That is because the universe is sometimes just.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ridley's Cohort, post: 3136382, member: 545"] You are imposing modern Western ideals on a rough and tumble fantasy world. In the larger world [i]today[/i] it is not rare for criminal gangs to be rooted out by a lethal hail of machine gun fire from a military style assault on an entire building, killing everyone therein. Innocents? A sad thing that, but it is a price the populace accepts for law and order. That is part of the fun of a being a justice-dealing-do-gooder. Sometimes there is negative fallout. Has nothing to do with the Paladin, per se. Heros and villains alike have a knack for making enemies. "Guilt by association" is one (of many) traditionally accepted means of assessing culpability. It is still accepted in most of the world, and I am afraid it has not exactly fallen completely out of fashion in modern Western societies. Under such a moral viewpoint, truly innocent people who happen to hang out with evil people is a logical impossiblity. Genuinely good-hearted people know that association with evil sullies them, and that they may end up paying with their lives for their guilt if they fail to find a means of atonement by their own efforts and initiative. Good people whose lot places them in the company of evil men know their should fear Paladins. That is because the universe is sometimes just. [/QUOTE]

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