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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Torm" data-source="post: 2052986" data-attributes="member: 12706">Not exactly. I'm not the simple creature you're making me out to be. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> The punishment decided upon may still be wrong. But, because it is the wrong that consensus (the best standard we have, since we aren't the Borg) agrees is appropriate to have inflicted upon them as justice for a particular wrong they would commit, it is just.Court sentencing is very rarely a happy business, and the only thing that excuses the things that a judge or juror may decide or a correctional officer/executioner/what-have-you may do as part of it is that they are acting not for themselves but on behalf of society as a whole, in the pursuit of a greater good. And yes, that does kinda suck, but unfortunately the world doesn't always allow one to pursue those who have dirtied themselves and keep one's own hands completely clean. :\ A Paladin does still kill. Yet, murder (in most religions) is a sin......</blockquote>