Tol-in-Gaurhoth XVII: The Saga Continues to Continue quite Continuously

[The Saucepan Man]

Originally Posted by Kath

We only have your word that you are in fact a man of the law.

Originally Posted by Aiwendil

Forgive me if I speak plainly, Judge Saucepan, but I've little use for courts and tribunals. Seems to me they do a fair job making wolves out of folks all by themselves.

See how the absence of a proper legal framework breeds lies and mistrust?

My dear villagers, this is precisely what we should be going out of our way to avoid. For it is by acting on the basis of random accusations and suspicions based upon little no evidence that we will do these Wolves work for them. This bloodthirsty gallows mentality will bring us nothing but our own doom. The Wolves among us will set villager against villager, herding the lynch mob in the direction of those who are innocent or, worse still, those who can be of great help to us in our hour of need.

I have a grave concern over those who would seek to discard the teachings of the law so readily, but I myself require solid evidence before I will condemn anyone to the gallows.