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<blockquote data-quote="Ilbranteloth" data-source="post: 7398338" data-attributes="member: 6778044"><p>That sounds mostly like chaotic good to me. The evil portion is lacking, for example, it’s not always “cast aside” but destroyed. Evil creatures conduct too many “crimes” and their allies know too much. </p><p></p><p>An evil character by definition doesn’t view murder, torture, oppression, and similar evil acts as problematic or distasteful. It goes beyond “just what’s best for me” and adds “by any means necessary.” If that means I must kill my “best” friend, or his mother, so be it. </p><p></p><p>Chaotic good places a higher value on an individual than society, but not a higher value on a specific individual. In fact, lawful good will often place the value of the society - the greater good, over the value of an individual (even if the lawful good character doesn’t like choosing the “lesser of two evils.”</p><p></p><p>An evil character doesn’t hesitate to choose one, because to him there are no “lesser evils.” There’s just things that benefit me more. I might like you, or find you beneficial, but if we reach a point where it’s you die or something I don’t like will happen to me, then you’ll die. There will be some sort of threshold, and that’s not to say they don’t have love for any creatures or people, although I’m not sure there would be any that would willingly die for somebody else.</p><p></p><p>On the other hand, strangers are generally viewed as a potential benefit or expendable. There may not be outright hatred toward them, but there is little to no caring for them if something bad were to happen to them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ilbranteloth, post: 7398338, member: 6778044"] That sounds mostly like chaotic good to me. The evil portion is lacking, for example, it’s not always “cast aside” but destroyed. Evil creatures conduct too many “crimes” and their allies know too much. An evil character by definition doesn’t view murder, torture, oppression, and similar evil acts as problematic or distasteful. It goes beyond “just what’s best for me” and adds “by any means necessary.” If that means I must kill my “best” friend, or his mother, so be it. Chaotic good places a higher value on an individual than society, but not a higher value on a specific individual. In fact, lawful good will often place the value of the society - the greater good, over the value of an individual (even if the lawful good character doesn’t like choosing the “lesser of two evils.” An evil character doesn’t hesitate to choose one, because to him there are no “lesser evils.” There’s just things that benefit me more. I might like you, or find you beneficial, but if we reach a point where it’s you die or something I don’t like will happen to me, then you’ll die. There will be some sort of threshold, and that’s not to say they don’t have love for any creatures or people, although I’m not sure there would be any that would willingly die for somebody else. On the other hand, strangers are generally viewed as a potential benefit or expendable. There may not be outright hatred toward them, but there is little to no caring for them if something bad were to happen to them. [/QUOTE]
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