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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Son of the Serpent" data-source="post: 7850484" data-attributes="member: 7015476"><p>Sort of a side note relavant to an earlier post of mine.  My circle of role players (includes a couple dms so we all get pc time) probably averages one the line between NG and TN when the campaigns and pcs are aggregated.  We have used a fair amount of evil pcs but have used just enough more good ones that its slightly pushed in that direction from TN.  That said weve played enough of every alignment that i feel confident that when a group is flush with realistic psychology it comports pretty well to reality.  I think both in d&d and the real world, between the polarizing effects of good, chaos, law, and evil, evil is actually the least likely polar persuasion to harm capacity for cooperation.  Good is the most likely.  With law and chaos its about equal where chaos is likely to cause it in short term fashion and law is more likely to cause it in long term long lasting fashion.  Obviously neutrality is a completely different ball game from the rest in at least some ways.  But the reason evil seems not to have the tendancies of the rest is that self consciously evil people cannot comvince themselves they are righteous.  They inherently are the most advanced at theory of mind as they are thrust into situations where it would both be benefircial and for them less disagreeable to manipulate and take advantage of people to their own ends and comprehending others as they are not hindered from pursuing that.  Its not a perfect comparison bit consider the evolution of predators and omnivores.  They are generally more intelligent than their prey and more capable of theory of mind because their way of life pressures that they must or starve.  So they see others points of view.  And are not as easily blinded to the big picture.  In this way, evil is the most similar to neutral in its intellectual, social, and emotional capabilities but with a few less limitations, like giving a crap quite as often about the fall out.  But just as capably aware of it.  Again, this is assuming you only consider an actual evil aligned person to be self awarely evil.  Just thought i wanted to add onto my earlier thinking.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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