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<blockquote data-quote="FireLance" data-source="post: 892283" data-attributes="member: 3424">Daedrova, with respect to the terms &quot;right&quot; and &quot;wrong&quot;, I was using them relative to an individual's code of behaviour, and not in an absolute sense.&nbsp; As such, one person's &quot;right&quot; could be another person's &quot;wrong&quot;.Anyway, good point about a Lawful person opposing the standards of a Chaotic society.&nbsp; Perhaps then, the essence of Lawfulness is a belief in the importance of having rules and following them.&nbsp; At a personal level, a Lawful person behaves according to the rules of the code that he follows.&nbsp; In addition, a Lawful person believes that society should be ordered, and the behaviour of individuals in society should be governed by rules.&nbsp; However, a lawful person may disagree with specific rules and may not feel obliged to follow them, e.g. a Lawful Good person in a Lawful Evil society (&quot;There should be rules, just not these rules&quot;).In contrast, a Chaotic person believes that rules are harmful.&nbsp; Although he may tend to behave in certain ways, he is not consistent.&nbsp; He may even believe that he should not be consistent. A Chaotic person also believes that society should not be ordered, and individuals should be left to do whatever they want.&nbsp; Of course, he also reserves the right to respond if someone does something he does not like (&quot;You do what you want, I'll do what I want, and what I want to do right now is to stop you&quot;).This is of course a simple abstraction, and cannot cover all situations, e.g. what is the alignment of someone who believes that society should be ordered, but does not act according to rules himself?&nbsp; Or perhaps there should be an &quot;internal alignment&quot; to dictate how a person acts, and an &quot;external alignment&quot; to indicate how a person thinks society should be?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FireLance, post: 892283, member: 3424"] Daedrova, with respect to the terms "right" and "wrong", I was using them relative to an individual's code of behaviour, and not in an absolute sense. As such, one person's "right" could be another person's "wrong". Anyway, good point about a Lawful person opposing the standards of a Chaotic society. Perhaps then, the essence of Lawfulness is a belief in the importance of having rules and following them. At a personal level, a Lawful person behaves according to the rules of the code that he follows. In addition, a Lawful person believes that society should be ordered, and the behaviour of individuals in society should be governed by rules. However, a lawful person may disagree with specific rules and may not feel obliged to follow them, e.g. a Lawful Good person in a Lawful Evil society ("There should be rules, just not these rules"). In contrast, a Chaotic person believes that rules are harmful. Although he may tend to behave in certain ways, he is not consistent. He may even believe that he should not be consistent. A Chaotic person also believes that society should not be ordered, and individuals should be left to do whatever they want. Of course, he also reserves the right to respond if someone does something he does not like ("You do what you want, I'll do what I want, and what I want to do right now is to stop you"). This is of course a simple abstraction, and cannot cover all situations, e.g. what is the alignment of someone who believes that society should be ordered, but does not act according to rules himself? Or perhaps there should be an "internal alignment" to dictate how a person acts, and an "external alignment" to indicate how a person thinks society should be? [/QUOTE]

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