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<blockquote data-quote="2WS-Steve" data-source="post: 575448" data-attributes="member: 3289">I agree that the Dirty Harry one is pretty open to interpretation. However I think Clint Eastwood would say that his character was lawful good. My feeling is that those stories were told with an assumption that the regular laws of society had broken down due to bureaucracy or whatever and that, in order to have justice done, you needed cops who would cut through the red tape. A lot of people see the films as simple revenge fantasies but at least some people thought of the character as pursuing true justice in a society that no longer seemed to care about justice. Frankly I don't know how I feel about the issue but I do think reasonable people can disagree about this and that a player could run a Dirty Harry style character as their interpretation of lawful good.Batman runs from Dirty Harry to a more traditional notion of lawful good; in the 70's comics he turned over crooks to the police and wouldn't even use a gun!One approach to the good alignments that I like is having lawful good emphasize justice, neutral good emphasize compassion, and chaotic good emphasize liberty. These are all important principles that underlie many of our moral choices. Unfortunately, we occasionally find ourelves in situations where we must sacrifice one to protect the other.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="2WS-Steve, post: 575448, member: 3289"] I agree that the Dirty Harry one is pretty open to interpretation. However I think Clint Eastwood would say that his character was lawful good. My feeling is that those stories were told with an assumption that the regular laws of society had broken down due to bureaucracy or whatever and that, in order to have justice done, you needed cops who would cut through the red tape. A lot of people see the films as simple revenge fantasies but at least some people thought of the character as pursuing true justice in a society that no longer seemed to care about justice. Frankly I don't know how I feel about the issue but I do think reasonable people can disagree about this and that a player could run a Dirty Harry style character as their interpretation of lawful good. Batman runs from Dirty Harry to a more traditional notion of lawful good; in the 70's comics he turned over crooks to the police and wouldn't even use a gun! One approach to the good alignments that I like is having lawful good emphasize justice, neutral good emphasize compassion, and chaotic good emphasize liberty. These are all important principles that underlie many of our moral choices. Unfortunately, we occasionally find ourelves in situations where we must sacrifice one to protect the other. [/QUOTE]

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