Okay I’m saying it whoever is taking ALL the free liners in the women’s should be put in the gulag you are sinful

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it's not the paladin that does it, it's the fact that you can kill a village as a paladin and as long as they all came up as evil-aligned you did A Good which is to say the problem the structure, not the hammer

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it's incoherent and that's why it's interesting. like superman is mostly only interesting when there aren't problems he can just out-punch or outwit. when he wants to break his own rules for a greater good rigid moral frameworks are always incoherent by their nature

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imo: a modern fantasy "paladin" as a sort of oathbound or divinely empowered warrior is a surprisingly complex but fundamentally almost incoherent trope

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ok i did a deep dive on this and came away that "paladins" are an insane mishmash of all kinds of different christian mythology and medieval literature and midcentury fantasy holy warrior pulp fantasy schlock, the underlying structure is surprisingly fragile because it's so spread out

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