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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 2603374" data-attributes="member: 32740">Sanity does not alter or determine alignment.  If anything you can only say that an insane person might not be able to behave according to an alignment since alignment is an amalgamation of philosphical beliefs, morals, ethics, and even a little sociology and culture.  Alignment is determined by what you do and WHY you do it.  Insane people are not fully following any alignment path that they choose.  It may be in part or in whole but their actions are being directed or restricted by a physical ailment, not a demonstration of the characters willing choice of action.Characters of ANY alignment can be insane without affecting thier alignment one whit.  It is only when the character is freely CHOOSING actions and taking them that you see their alignment.  As a result a character could be any alignment and act directly contrary to what you would expect.  Actions that a character actually has no control over (such as those dictated as a result of insanity) cannot be taken as having any effect on the characters alignment.  Now that doesn't mean that there aren't still CONSEQUENCES, even though they had no control over what they were doing, but you can't change or determine alignment because of it.</blockquote>