Is Tolerance a Lawful thing ?

[le Redoutable]

beh no, Lawful Evil people have no tolerance,
so, if Lawful Good are very tolerant,
it should mean Tolerance a Good behavior,
as opposed to Evil as being a Cruel Thing;

I like it in Scholarship Level x Tolerance as an Intelligence matter
( scholarship Level ==> Knowledge, or Proficiencies datas )

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Practical tolerance requires willingness to kick Nazis out of the bar for being Nazis, so I’d say it’s very much not a lawful thing.

 

[le Redoutable]

hem hem no politics no religion as they say

 

[grankless]

Being smart does not make you tolerant.

Agreed with doctorbadwolf, tolerance cannot be applied equally - ie, lawfully - because intolerance itself cannot be tolerated.

 

[le Redoutable]

ah ahhh !
that's something ( smartness ) I would have localized under the Tolerant status !
so ( if your data is good stuff ) I must be wrong with that statement !

 

[gamerprinter]

I wouldn't consider Lawful Anything as tolerant, in fact I would consider most Lawful to be the least tolerant. By contrast, not by the way many people play Chaotic alignments, but I'd hazard to guess that chaotics are the most tolerant - even that they don't care enough to be intolerant.

 

[le Redoutable]

Chaotic means ( I suppose everyone agrees ) Freedom above all .

 

[Warpiglet-7]

Lawful generally holds to tradition and established norms.

In an intolerant society, being lawful often means going along with it.

If you are “good” you might have a reason to buck the trend this time. Lawful/chaotic and good/evil are not 100% consistent at all times.

So I think about it like this: if you are lawful and your traditions are not tolerant you have a higher chance of going along with it than say a person on the chaotic side of things. But you might not especially if you are good and sentient creatures are being violated.

 

[RuinousPowers]

I would consider tolerance a Neutral trait, or more specifically, a NG trait.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

I think one of the reasons that so many people don't like Alignment at all is because they see it as unrealistically constraining. 5e has added "typically" in front of monsters' alignment to get people to understand that not all of the monsters are of like mind.

I would go one further and say that "typically" applies to each individual as well. You're character may be "typically" neutral good, for example, but it does not mean that all his thoughts, feelings, and actions will always perfectly fall under that category. That's not bad playing, that's just how people are.

As far as the OP goes, yeah, I'd say that Chaotic is the most tolerant and Lawful the least. Good is generally more tolerant than Evil. Education has something to do with it, just to understand more points of view, but intelligence does not (education and intelligence are only marginally related).

So the most tolerant person would likely be an educated (experienced, in D&D terms) chaotic good person. But not always. There'd probably be the occasional close-minded person who believes in Liberty but is intolerant toward those who disagree with his views.