A Paladin is an apple pie on the 4th of July.
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It is humorous that the absolute best way to combat terrible evils is in fact to be evil-aligned. It immunizes you to the most common, often often most painful, weapon used by evil fiends. So if your intent is to go out and smite the pants off of the elder evils, then you'd actually be better off being evil.
[tangent] That's why Zon-Kuthon is Golarion's last, best hope against the coming Dominion of the Black / Great Old One invasion. He's just trying to toughen up the people of Nidal to help stand against the horrors of the outer dark. Or was he preparing them to serve it? It's so hard to remember...[/tangent]
Which reminds me of a scene from Dilvish the Damned, in which a bunch of wizards of all three alignments are arguing about the dark magic forces they have come to destroy/seize/contain;
Good wizard, "After all the best weapon against black magic is white magic."
Evil wizard, "No, it's black magic, we at least know something about what we're up against."
Neutral wizard <just laughs at both of them>
