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This is why I like what Paizo did with Pathfinder 2E
Paladin becomes a part of the Champion class, which are now martial fighters empowered with divine strength by their deity of choice rather than just a goody-goody who gets power that way
You want to be a Champion of the God of Freedom so you can go around freeing slaves and kicking slavers in the face? There you go, your God understands and condones your behavior
No puttering around being like "Oh, but I have to remain lawful and the law says slavery is legal"
Just good ol' fashioned smashing in a slavers face with an enchanted stein of mead and then setting everyone free
All I want is smiting slavers and oppressive assholes in the face regardless of their race, even if it means smashing a couple humans in too for their anti-goblin bullshit, with a shiny big hammer weilded by an ungenderable working class paragon.
Edit: credit given to credit due: BG3 has a really good character editor that really allows to fucking around with gender quite well Also Edit: props to Paizo with Pathfinder then, that's the way to do it.
The oath for lawful good Champions specifically states that Good trumps Lawful in every case, so it doesn’t matter if you’re “out of your jurisdiction”. Characters with an oath to destroy certain creature types aren’t obligated to perform kamikaze charges against impossible odds or pointlessly murder a token Good aligned example of that monster, either.
The most restrictive Champion is probably the Neutral Good one, since they have the whole Steven Universe “everyone gets a second chance, no matter how dumb the offer is” thing going on. Their smite is replaced with an automatic counter-attack though, so refusing is a bad idea.