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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 577059" data-attributes="member: 5834">ReDon't forget the lawful aspect of Lawful Good. Lawful does in fact mean law-abiding it just doesn't mean abiding any law.A lawful good person would actually take the time to think about the justness of a law. If the law were just, they would follow it. If it were injust, they probably would not.Lawful Good people are not vigilantes either. They are actually the kind of people that vigilantes help. Vigilantes fall more into the Neutral Good (An often forgotten alignment) or Chaotic Good category.A good example of a Lawful Good person would be the District Attorney of a city who was unable to try a known criminal because he had no evidence to base a conviction on. This is where your Neutral or Chaotic Good vigilante type comes into help.A great example of this is in the movie The Untouchables. Elliot Ness is Lawful Good. He believes that he must follow the laws of the country to carry out his job effectively to prove that the justice system works for the good of the people. Now, he chooses a few partners who step over the line, but are still probably Neutral Good because they follow the laws when they feel they do the most good and break them when they feel it does the most good.That difference must be noted when judging the difference between a lawful good and neutral good character. Lawful Good does follow the law and rarely breaks a just law made for the greater good of society, even if not breaking that law means an evil will be done.A neutral good person will support the laws as long as they don't allow evil to be done. They will break a law arbitarily if they feel the greater good is served by doing so.This distinction must be made otherwise there really is no different between Lawful and Neutral Good.</blockquote>

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