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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark Chance" data-source="post: 575373" data-attributes="member: 2795">Not quite...Dirty Harry, yes. Batman, no. Batman does not, will not, kill. To take a life violates the most fundamental tenet of his personal code. Batman also works very much hand-in-hand with law enforcement, doing the things that the police cannot do because of the niceties of things like search warrants, probable cause, et cetera.Regarding the LG monk, remember that  Lawful not necessarily equate to law-abiding. Lex inuista non est lex, if I remember my Latin correctly. An unjust law is not a law. This principle has been of cardinal importance, at least in Western philosophy and theology, for something on the order of 2000+ years.The problem that I see with regards to Lawful alignments is that too many people seem to approach the idea from a positivist point of view, which holds that man-made law is the highest law there is. This is not only demonstrably false, but is also a recipe for tyranny, whether it is the tyranny of one party (i.e., the Nazis or the Communists), of one person (i.e., Saddam Hussein), or of the majority (i.e., popular democracy).A Lawful Good character, it seems to me, is committed to the idea that there is a Good that stands as the superior in the relationship between Lawful and Good. Consequently, laws that permit evil to occur or directly bring about evil need not be obeyed.Of course, this doesn't mean they have to be fought against tooth and nail. An unjust law can be permissive or coercive. Permissive evil impose no moral obligation for civil disobedience. Coercive laws do.Hand in hand with all of this remains a prime consideration: Evil has no rights, but people do.Anyway, that's enough for one post. I need to get up and do something constructive. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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