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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tzor" data-source="post: 3288784" data-attributes="member: 12826">I think one of the biggest myths of alignment is in the way the four alignment points are described.  Often they are described in terms of their effects and not in their causes.  This is best seen in the direction of evil.  It’s not that evil people hurt others because of their alignment, but because of the self centered view of the universe they simply don’t care if they hurt others to get what they want.  (The person who hurts others at the expense of their own selves is not evil but stupid.)This can also be seen in the law/chaos axis where law is often mistaken for legal and chaos for random.  As an alignment, law is more related to discipline.  One who is disciplined tends to maintain respect for the law, but the effect should not be confused with the cause.  Likewise, as an alignment, chaos tends to be more free form or undisciplined.  While he is free to change he is also free not to change, which means that the actions of the chaotic person are not completely random; after all it if worked yesterday, why not try it today?Finally the next biggest myth is that a paladin is “Lawful Good” as though he or she is lawful first and good second.  Paladins are actually good first of all and lawful second.  The reason for this is clear when you realize that one deliberate act of evil results in loss of status, but it takes a major violation of the code or an alignment shift to have a loss in status and not one deliberate act of chaos.</blockquote>

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