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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6756870" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>Earlier in the thread we talked about how DMs often bring their alignment biases to the table in subtle ways, and then even without meaning to punish players for violating them.</p><p></p><p>This would be a case in point. The moral relativism you are presenting here is congruent to the ideas behind the Chaotic Neutral philosophy - all meaning is created and personal, everything is relative, you can't judge what another believes, the only way to be true is to be true to yourself, nothing has absolute value, and so forth. Without really meaning to, you've essentially said, "If your character isn't Chaotic Neutral, then fundamentally he's just wrong about what he believes." If you play a character with moral absolutist beliefs, who says something like, "Human sacrifice is wrong. Slavery is wrong. Rape is wrong. This is true not just for me, but for everyone everywhere all the time.", then you are inherently both foolish and wrong and the universe is going to punish you for it because the master of that universe has decreed otherwise.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 6756870, member: 4937"] Earlier in the thread we talked about how DMs often bring their alignment biases to the table in subtle ways, and then even without meaning to punish players for violating them. This would be a case in point. The moral relativism you are presenting here is congruent to the ideas behind the Chaotic Neutral philosophy - all meaning is created and personal, everything is relative, you can't judge what another believes, the only way to be true is to be true to yourself, nothing has absolute value, and so forth. Without really meaning to, you've essentially said, "If your character isn't Chaotic Neutral, then fundamentally he's just wrong about what he believes." If you play a character with moral absolutist beliefs, who says something like, "Human sacrifice is wrong. Slavery is wrong. Rape is wrong. This is true not just for me, but for everyone everywhere all the time.", then you are inherently both foolish and wrong and the universe is going to punish you for it because the master of that universe has decreed otherwise. [/QUOTE]
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