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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tzor" data-source="post: 2826954" data-attributes="member: 12826">I would point out that alignment is not a point.  It is a zone, an area as it were.  Given this the notion of good is at best only discussable at the extreemes.  One can argue that good and evil are one pair of opposite priorities and values, and that law and chaos are a second set of opposite priorities and values.  The Lawful Good or Chaotic Good person has to deal with two sets of priorities, while the Neutral Good person only has one priority to deal with and can concentrate fully on it.However, just because he can give 100% of his attention to it, doesn't mean he is gving more attention than someone who isn't giving 100% of his attention to it.  In order to make this point, I will consider the casuse of Law to be Baseball and the cause of Good to be Golf.Suppose there was a professional baseball player who would go to Florida every fall to play golf.  He would spend perhaps 25% of his time playing golf and 75% of his tmie playing baseball.  Clearly golf is not his highest priority, but he approaches both sports with equal dedication.  Now let's consider the average golf duffer.  He spends 100% of his time playing golf, but is not very dedicated at it.Now clearly the basball player will not be superior to the professional golfer, but he might be superior to the duffer, even though he only spends a portion of his resouces on the game, because he puts more effert overall.  Even considering the extreemes can be difficult because alignment is an area not a point.  Consider the paladin, who is technically LG.  But the paladin is not equally lawful and good, because while a single evil act can result in an ex-paladin, a single chaotic act does not do the same thing.  A paladin is a lawful paragon of good, not a good paragon of law.  Likewise most chaotic "free wheeling" good characters are not paragons of chaos, are just free thinking guardians of good.</blockquote>

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