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Alignment Question - Chaotic Neutral or Chaotic Evil?
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<blockquote data-quote="Friend of the Dork" data-source="post: 5691001" data-attributes="member: 91954"><p>That's because, in the stories he only steals from characters that the audience thinks deserves it--- evil barons, fat priests etc... </p><p></p><p>The idea is, it's not evil if you do it to evil. Used to condone death penalty, torture, maiming, having people rot in prisons, etc etc. Or just the old "they are evil so lets go kill them all." </p><p></p><p>Now if you take this Robin fellow and have him rob travelers indiscriminately, and kill them if they refuse, you got yourself your typical CE bandit. </p><p></p><p>I'm not going to say stealing is evil because its evil, even if that's what all moral boils down to. As the holy book says "Evil implies hurting, oppressing, and killing others." Stealing usually hurts people, ergo stealing from innocents is evil. Note I use "innocent" very broadly here. </p><p></p><p>Stealing is not inherently Chaotic, while resenting authority is. Actually, the book says "legitimate" authority, which is kinda weird as what is legitimate or not is very subjective, I doubt chaotic characters view them as legitimate.. I digress. </p><p></p><p>Stealing is often unlawful as well, but not necessarily. LE bullies taking things from others because they are stronger and the society lets them are not acting Chaotic, while the CG that tries to impose his own vigilante justice is.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Friend of the Dork, post: 5691001, member: 91954"] That's because, in the stories he only steals from characters that the audience thinks deserves it--- evil barons, fat priests etc... The idea is, it's not evil if you do it to evil. Used to condone death penalty, torture, maiming, having people rot in prisons, etc etc. Or just the old "they are evil so lets go kill them all." Now if you take this Robin fellow and have him rob travelers indiscriminately, and kill them if they refuse, you got yourself your typical CE bandit. I'm not going to say stealing is evil because its evil, even if that's what all moral boils down to. As the holy book says "Evil implies hurting, oppressing, and killing others." Stealing usually hurts people, ergo stealing from innocents is evil. Note I use "innocent" very broadly here. Stealing is not inherently Chaotic, while resenting authority is. Actually, the book says "legitimate" authority, which is kinda weird as what is legitimate or not is very subjective, I doubt chaotic characters view them as legitimate.. I digress. Stealing is often unlawful as well, but not necessarily. LE bullies taking things from others because they are stronger and the society lets them are not acting Chaotic, while the CG that tries to impose his own vigilante justice is. [/QUOTE]
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