Smiting

[bunn]

 [Poll #1753819]

Comments

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

I tend to think about having telekinesis and, when people try to run me down or ride their motorbikes around our local fragile ancient woodland, and send them crashing into trees and lamposts.

[andrewducker]

Grenade launcher.

And thinking about it is fine, so long as it's firmly in the realm of fantasy.

[skordh.livejournal.com]

My kids smite people (usually one another) all the time with pretend lightning. It's definitely wrong!

[bunn.livejournal.com]

So far, your morality is in a very small minority!

[king-pellinor.livejournal.com]

They should add arcane to it to make it go further, and maybe some fire or cold for extra damage :-)

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

I think there's a sliding scale of wrongness. Repeatedly fantasising about stabbing your neighbour or slaughtering your colleagues with a gun is wronger because it's doable. Occasionally imagining creative and magical fates for people who annoy you is less wrong since it can never be confused with reality.

However, any "smiting" that I imagine is very tame, and involves mild humiliation, public admitting of guilt, or sharp slaps delivered by an invisible hand whenever they're bad. My paladins would despair of me.

[skordh.livejournal.com]

Er... actually they do. They keep shouting "lightning! and arcane! Now zap!"

Also they now chant "Kal-i-mar! Kal-i-mar!" I can't help but feel this also reflects poorly their morality :-)

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

Mobile rocket launcher, preferably roof-mounted on my car, for zapping inconsiderate motorists who put every else's life at risk.