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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cheiromancer" data-source="post: 303210" data-attributes="member: 141">I was hoping for a few more bumps, but I guess I shouldn't leave the set incomplete. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />CHAOTIC EVIL 1. First of all, do no harm. Harm is whatever prevents YOU from reaching YOUR destiny. 2. To discover your destiny, explore your hungers, desires and obsessions. These are the only true guides to action. When they are sated, develop new ones. 3. Seek the good. Remember: wanting something makes it good. Avoid the evil; evil is whatever hurts or hinders you. 4. Tearing someone down is the same as building yourself up, only easier. Taking away someone else's good is better than getting something similar for yourself, as you end up twice as far ahead. 5. Preserve your sense of self. Shun empathy and compassion, two ways of losing the self. Keep yourself free. Avoid generosity and cooperation; they are voluntary forms of self enslavement. Strive to overcome the five great weaknesses: conscience, responsibility, regret, guilt and shame. 6. The reason why others exist is so that you can use them to achieve your destiny. Threats and bribes are the means whereby you use them. 7. You have no equals- you have inferiors, who exist to further your goals, and superiors, whose strength you respect and strive to imitate. 8. Anyone who harms you is an enemy. Remember- if they thwart your desires, they are doing you harm. Do them harm first. 9. If someone can hurt you, but you can’t hurt them, you should do what they tell you to do. Especially if this is something you like doing anyway. 10. A "friend" is someone of equal power who wants to use you for their own goals. Go along with them if you like, but make sure you use them too. NEUTRAL EVIL 1. The first rule is to look out for number one. Anyone who doesn’t see this is a fool, and deserves to be taken advantage of. Others act on this rule, but pretend to be acting for a “higher cause”. Keep an eye on them; they probably lie about other things too. Finally, some people put their own interests first and are honest about it. You can respect such people, and should think twice about messing with them. 2. Playing by the rules is the surest way to fail. If the system is stacked against you, the only sensible thing is to try to even the odds. 3. Achieving your goals will also require sacrifice and hard work. No one will appreciate that you gave up family and friends to achieve your goals, but that’s OK; your progress to your goal makes it all worthwhile. 4. Deception is a necessary tactic for survival. Many will not cooperate with you if they know what your goals are. Conceal your goals and methods and you will have an easier time of things. 5. Earn a good reputation. Make people see that it is in their best interests to stay on your good side, and that it is a bad idea to get you angry. Don’t overdo it on the “nice guy” bit; people will think you are weak and will try to walk all over you. But don’t overdo it on the death and destruction side either, or people won’t see any alternative to uniting against you. Just make it clear that your friends get along fine, and that your enemies are in for a world of hurt. 6. Study the “dark side” of human emotions. Fear motivates more people than hope, and hatred motivates more people than compassion. More people are walking the path of greed, ambition or revenge than you might think. As a student of human nature you will gain more insight if you recognize these basic facts. For example, people who are “doing good” are either acting in fear of someone or something more powerful than they are, or they are greedily seeking a reward for their services. 7. You can’t do everything yourself; a lot of work has to be delegated to properly motivated subordinates, or get done by people who are manipulated into doing something. Still, if something has to be done right, it will sometimes have to be done by you. 8. People generally don’t say what they believe; they say what they want you to believe. Discard the quaint conceptions of “truth” and “falsity” when they conflict with this rule. 9. Might makes right. If you want to be believed, make a statement of fact backed up by a threat of force (implied or explicit). You’ll be surprised how quickly people will agree with you. If you want to claim property rights, have a credible threat against those who do not respect your claim on the property. Established “facts” and “rights” are based on this principle. 10. Laws, traditions and prejudices are two edged swords- sometimes they protect the worthy from the envious, and other times they help the undeserving keep their ill-gotten gains. Defend law and tradition if it helps you protect what is yours; oppose them if they keep power and property in the hands of those who don’t deserve it. LAWFUL EVIL 1. The self is the agent of the will. Discipline and master the self as you would master a deadly weapon or a precision tool. Discipline perfects the self and strengthens the will; it hardens the strong and eliminates the weak. 2. Obey your superiors. The meshing of your will with theirs produces something greater than the sum of the parts. But be watchful for weakness or inconsistency in your superiors- do not let your will be yoked to one that is unworthy of yours, and do not obey someone weaker than yourself. 3. Love your associates as yourself. Strengthen them as you would strengthen and discipline your own body. In their submission to the will is their perfection, and the further strengthening of the will. Purge weakness as ruthlessly and dispassionately as you would purge it in yourself. 4. Beware sentimentality; affection and animosity alike are distractions to the completion of your duties, and weaknesses to be exploited by your enemies. Ruthless constancy of purpose are the sole means of overcoming obstacles. 5. Ensure that your subordinates retain their focus. Use fear and pain to discourage disobedience and incompetence- reward faithful service with power and responsibility. Recruit able individuals, and prune your organization of those who have proven unsatisfactory. 6. Your complete knowledge and control of your environment and subordinates is key to your success. But ensure that the function of your organization is visible only to you and your superiors- your command of what is in your purvey is what is important, not that your organization be so rigid or predictable that it is vulnerable to the ambition of others. 7. Be truthful and reliable, and keep promises and commitments scrupulously. Your thoughts, words and actions must always be in harmony with reality and with your own history. You are not, however, responsible for any misunderstanding your words or actions; if someone is misled or comes to harm because of that person’s mistake, the fault is entirely theirs. 8. Be courteous and polite; it is a measure of your self control. Give praise where it is due, and remember that imitation is the sincerest form of praise; strength and cunning is no less real for being modeled on the strength and cunning of another. 9. Appear sensitive to the needs and wants of others. If they are weaker, then knowing their weaknesses increases your own control over them, and the appearance of gentleness may disarm the unperceptive. If they are stronger, then your own will and ambition may be advanced by being harnessed to theirs. 10. Be patient; time unravels the schemes of the inconstant. Be strategically and tactically flexible; rigidity is not strength, and a disciplined mind and organization are responsive to changing situations.</blockquote>

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