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Cool, it bleeped my swear word!

I looked it up, and you're right, it isn't written properly. I beleive in 3.5 it was more explicit that it allows BAB extra attacks with the off hand.

Even so, the 2-weapon fighting entrie states specifically that the penalty is to the specific one attack granted by attacking with the off hand. "You suffer a –6 penalty with your regular attack or attacks with your primary hand and a –10 penalty to the attack with your off hand when you fight this way." You'll see that it says THE attack with your off hand, while specifying attack or attacks above.

As written, there is no penalty. This is still clearly an oversight, and some sort of errata aught to address it in future editions. As intended, however, the -2 is to all attacks made. You would be correct in your assertion that no text can prove this, however. At least, I can't find one.

See we have already had extensive discussion of what the following things mean.....

Other threads too numerous to mention....

respect legitimate auhority....

Does that mean following the law of the land regardless of the nature of that land?
....examples
1) a land were it is not illegal to murder, but you are punished for being caught.....
2) a land where thieves are hanged

OR

Does that mean following the tenets of the pallys diety?

OR

Does that mean persons above the Pally within his/her order?

Can a pally spring a thief from the local jail (against all manner of illegitimate authority) to save a person from a death sentence?

Who is making the determination the authority is legitimate or not?

Authority is legitimate if it establishes order to the benefit of the general good. A paladin doesn't have to follow orders from policemen in Mordor.

That said, there will be grey areas. Innocent persons arrested erroneously, draconian punishments, etc. In the event that the society in question is legitimate, the paladin will generally confront such issues within the scope of the legal system. Paladins recognize the great importance that law and order have in safeguarding the well-being of people, and seldom are willing to destabalize it.

Legitimate authority includes societies laws, the laws of the paladin's deity, and should the paladin belong to an order, that order's laws. The paladin must respect them all, provided they remain legitimate.