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There's no such thing as forcing someone to be altruistic. Altruism is defined by the intent of the person helping others. If someone is forced to help others without a choice, they have no agency and thus no intent, selfless or otherwise.

If Muscular Neutral is Muscular because it's trying to balance Law and Chaos, it has no reason to prefer NG or NE. If CE is dominant and its strongest non-Chaotic rival is NG, Muscular Neutral would ally with NG. If LG is dominant and its strongest non-Lawful rival is NE, Muscular Neutrals would...

It's challenging if we assume the thought experiment is talking about True Neutral, specifically. If we're asking why Lawful Neutral would oppose certain Good factions and why Chaotic Neutral would oppose certain other Good factions, it's fairly easy. Actually, if we assume True Neutral doesn't...

To recap, my current understaning of the thought experiment is this: Premise 1: Evil is harming, killing, or oppressing others. Premise 2: Good is selflessly helping others. Premise 3: It's possible for Good to win with no harmful consequences. Premise 4: If Good wins, Evil acts are prohibited...

Thanks for reposting that. I missed it the first time. I'll contemplate that premise and see if there's anything I can contribute to the thought experiment.

Okay, this sounds like a workable definition of Good winning. In a world where Good has won, all members of society chill out and help one another live their lives. The victory condition for Good is the establishment of this entirely altruistic society in perpetuity, without end. Using that...

I'd be interested in engaging with the premise of the thread, so I have a follow-up question. Since we're assuming Good (altruism and respect for others) can win and defeat Evil (harm and oppression) forever, what does a world where Evil has been defeated look like? I would need a concrete...

I don't see that premise anywhere in the OP, but I can't dispute that you do see it, so it appears we're each talking about a different thought experiment. I withdraw any arguments I made against your conclusions. My posts are unrelated to the topic you're discussing.

In my proposed thought experiment, the Neutrals aren't maintaining Evil. Some amount of Evil will always exist, without needing anyone to maintain it. And at no point was it proposed that Neutrals go about killing Good people. There's no requirement that Neutrals commit Evil acts. Nor is there...

You're quoting my post, but you don't seem to be addressing my proposed take on Neutrality. I'm proposing a Neutrality which believes the world already contains the least possible amount of Evil. According to that world view, any "Good" character who feels compelled to destroy all Evil is...

I don't believe those are the only two things that make this work. Muscular Neutral also works if Neutral believes the Balance represents the minimal amount of Evil that can exist in the world. Muscular Good must be opposed because Hell is paved with Good intentions. Any attempt to eliminate...

Quick progress update: If I organize everything into two- and four-page spreads, depending on how I size things, I'm sitting on between 550 and 600 pages of content. On the one hand, this isn't a physical book, so there's no inherent limitation on the number of pages I include. On the other...

Yin and yang. Good contains the seeds of Evil, and Evil contains the seeds of Good. If Evil wins for a moment, it eventually destroys itself in an orgy of violence, leaving the meek to inherit the world. The meek rebuild the world as a less Evil, but not necessarily Good, place. If Good wins...

So I hear there was a brawl after the Ohio State vs. Michigan football game earleir today. Michigan won the game, then ran out and tried to plant their school’s flag at the 50 yard line. Which wouldn’t have been a problem, except they were the visiting team, so they were planting their flag...

Re: "How much is Hasbro?" Nope. Still not going to care. A tweet about something doesn't make it real. If rich dude wants to rich dude, he can put his money where his mouth is. Until then, he's all empty swagger. I can get that from any random wannabe influencer with zero followers.

Just another progress report for now. I've spent much of the past week doing page layout work. I developed a rough plan for the placement of illustrations, maps, and tables before starting any other tasks on this project, but until recently, I didn’t know the final sizes of those page elements...

Hell is where every game uses the d4 System. Nothing but fistfuls of d4s any time you want to do anything. And so many d4s have fallen off the table and onto the floor, you have no choice but to stand on them. Barefoot.

I generally avoid going into threads just to tell people I don't care about the topic they're discussing. I do think it's worthwhile to remind the community that we don't have to engage with incendiary comments celebrities make about our hobby, but I'm not going to advocate that in a thread...

I'll do what I can to oppose harmful actions and policies. But I'm not going to waste any more time listening to rich dudes justifying or reveling in their own destructive behavior.

It depends. Is Wendy Doe's dog Internet famous?