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Back to the OP. If you think a chaotic person only acts arbitrarily then chaotic alignments are pointless and don't represent any...

Seems like @Maxperson isn't saying that the cause must be noble but that the words "follows their whims" are the only words that matter...

No. It isn't. The charismatic leader wants to murder the lawfully chosen leader of the land and install himself on the throne so that...

You completely dodged the question so I'll try again (removing reference to a political movement you latched onto) and a bit of...

CN can also be those people who are very poorly organized and screw up a lot. Not insane, not cruel just do there on thing. CE is...

You may note that I have not cared a ton for alignment as a structure in most editions. And that's entirely because the convenient...

Well I mean back in 4e it was perfectly possible, because the lore wasn't structured to make gnolls just the worst and instead making it...

Keep in mind also that those definitions are trying to portray evil in the most negative light possible, in order to make evil...

I knew a guy who believed the ideal society would be a libertarian one with no laws or regulations. He considered taxes a form of theft...

Well first of all you have to understand Alignment isn't personality. It also isn't Intelligence. A CE can be smart enough to avoid...

This is true... one could say, if arguing personality and "smart" in absolutes, that LE are incapable of being "smart" as well...

Let's take a different approach. I have a character I want to represent. They don't care about laws one way or another, in modern...

Right but you aren't willing to discuss what it actually means to be chaotic - it's just automatically insane no matter who it applies...

Since you're defining anyone that acts in a chaotic manner as insane there's no point in having a discussion.

It's only an issue if you take the single phrase "acts on a whim" and base every decision and action upon that. Instead I view it as...