>With full knowledge it comes at the risk of endangering well-meaning guards who would stop him now or later.
Sure, but it's their choice. Is a goodie mage forbidden from using magic because a goodie rager might run in and try to kill him for it, well-meaning the entire time? Of course not. The choice to kill him is the rager's. Similarly, the choice is entirely the cityguard's.
>Is he so thoughtless he cannot have foreseen this outcome as a possibility?
>If what he needs to do is kill evil, at any cost, including killing a well-meaning guard who would seek to bring him to legal justice.
>Really? He's not the cause of it? I'm completely certain that if he did not break the law he would not have been warranted and it would not have happened. Is it not his responsibility as a paladin to think ahead for the sake of others?
Sure. It's 100% predictable. You know what else is? Since he's a paladin, it should be 100% predictable that some goodie outlanders will attack him and try and kill him.
If he had thought ahead, he would have realized that becoming a paladin will get goodie outlanders to try and kill him. I guess he wanted to become a paladin at any cost, including allowing for the possibility of killing goodie outlanders.
I'm completely certain that if he did not become a paladin, he would not have been attacked by a goodie outlander and run the risk of killing that guy. Is it not his responsibility as a paladin to think ahead for the sake of others?.
Obviously the very existence of paladins is a paradox; if they were truly good they would have become something else so that goodie outlanders wouldn't attack them, because it's 100% their fault and they need to plan better.
Do you see why this is a dumb argument?
>I don't see how you can buy that. That is like if I went vigilante, killed a rapist, then the police sought to bring me to justice, assaulted me, and were shot and killed. That's not my fault even though I know there's a chance I get caught and that might happen?
If you had no other recourse for stopping that rapist, who was going to continue raping unless you stopped him, and he was protected by well-meaning policemen who have a chance of dying if you attack him, I think the line becomes much blurrier. Obviously, you don't WANT to kill the policemen protecting him. But you also don't want him to continue raping people, which he will unless you stop him. In that case, the right thing to do becomes very situational and subjective.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/07/2013 01:17AM by vortexmagus.