FrozenNorth
Hero
Meanwhile, we have very many examples in this thread of alignment supporters responding to the counterexamples raised with “the GM/player didn’t understand/implement alignment properly”. This is the case even when people who support alignment disagree and spend three pages arguing amongst themselves whether Darth Vader and the Punisher were LE or CE.I think some of the complaints about alignment are simple frequency illusions. Basically if you don't like alignment, any time alignment comes up in a game it's going to stick out like a sore thumb.
So if you don't like alignment it's the reason Bob is playing a jackass, even if Bob always plays a jackass in other games that don't use alignment. Rulings by a DM are "bad" if they involve anything to do with alignment but not anything else that comes up in the game. Arguments about alignment cause games to fall apart even when there are a dozen other reasons. Having default alignment on orcs is bad, even though there will inevitably be some version of signaling "usually a bad guy" in most games.
Before you call out the mote in someone else’s eye, check the beam in your own.