You misunderstand me.
1. When you die, you can't play anymore.
2. People playing this game wanted to play this game.
3. Therefore, people playing this game do not want to die.
Thus, your claim that it doesn't matter if a non-mafia gets lynched is...well...idiotic.
Actually, I think you misunderstand me. I did not say that lynching a non-mafia was irrelevant, only that a single lynch on the scum side is much more dire for them, especially this early in the game. Sure, if a townie is lynched, that means we lose a total of two of our team members on day 1 because of night kills, but that's not the reasoning I saw. Keep in mind that this is a game, so any points I make are within the context of the game.
So, yes, I obviously understand and sympathize with the idea that nobody wants to die. However, I also have to take everything people say at more than face value. Therefore, it seems reasonable that using points that are relevant in the context of the player's desires but not in that of winning the game is more suspicious.
There aren't that many more Townies, you know. And the "mafia" people are also going to be killing townies.
I'm aware of this. As I said above, the intent of the posts preceding mine were more individualistic than I felt was appropriate for a townie. To be frank, and I apologize if this comes across as harsh, but I can't see any reason why wanting to keep playing matters to anyone except for the player who is at risk. I can accept that lynching a townie is a bad call. That's immediately obvious. We don't know who is town and who is scum, though, so it's really down to statistics right now. We have two mafia players and five townies. That means that if we lynch scum, they're outnumbered one-to-four the next day, taking night kills into account. On the other hand, with a townie lynched, that's a two-to-three ratio. That leaves us with an extra day to scumhunt if we lynch scum on the first day.
Anyway, this is all very fun and distracting, but I am still curious as to your reasoning for defending darkpaladin109.
FakeEdit: Ninja'd by TheDarkStar