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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ZuulMoG" data-source="post: 2643591" data-attributes="member: 32135">Put the kettle on ma, this could go awhile... Girls do not tell their guidance counsellors that they want to be hos when they grow up.  Prostitution is a last resort caused by desperation, not a career choice.  Making it a profitable enterprise is a form of coercion, as it erodes resistance to the concept by dangling money (a neccessity in most economies) as an enticement.Firstly, your point about feudalism being inherently unjust applies equally to every form of government.  There is no just human government, someone always gets left holding the short straw.That said, paladins are under the onus to overthrow tyrants (IE the Lawful Evil who use law as a weapon against the people), but a just and wise ruler who nonetheless labors under the same unfair system as other rulers can still manage to rule in peace and mercy.  Why overthrow a good king or lord?  Because the system made them king or lord without input from the ruled?  How does that affect their goodness and wisdom?A paladin must perform a delicate balancing act every day: he must serve the common good without destroying law and order, and uphold the law without allowing evil to hide behind its letters.  A whoring, hard-drinking, ass-kicker is not cut out for the role of paladin.</blockquote>