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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tzor" data-source="post: 3555807" data-attributes="member: 12826">You want to know what?  You want me to tell you how a chaotic neutral society functions?  I’m sorry but I just don’t have the time.  I have more important things to do like … well, even if I did have the time, frankly I couldn’t care less.  I mean why should I care?  I do what I do to get by.  If I do anything more someone’s going to take it from me.  If I do any less, then I don’t get by, if you know what I mean, so I just do what I do to get by.  No more and no less, and I’ve already wasted too much of my time telling you this.If we want to look at a society, instead of an individual, we need to use broad strokes.  CN is, after all, an average and people will drift from that average, even on a strongly aligned plane.  The first thing we need to understand is what does the “C” mean on the average, and then what does the “N” mean.Chaos is the opposite of law, but this is extremely misleading because the term “law” is misnamed.  A better statement is that chaos is the opposite of cosmos, or order.  It is the complete lack of discipline.  It is entropic laziness.  It has often been described as the “You should do what feels right at the time” attitude.  It is not “random” because technically a strict following of a random result is in fact a disciplined behavior.Don’t expect to see the streets cleaned, or the lamps lit on the same time every night.  (In fact don’t expect to see the lamps lit at all, unless someone really needs them lit.)  Don’t expect to see an officer of the law around every corner, or around any corner for that matter.  You might see a tax collector, but only when he feels like being seen.Neutral means neither evil nor good.  One is not really concerned with the needs of others, but on the other hand, one is also not really concerned with the needs of self.  Trying to advance the needs of ones self might just as easily get one into trouble with someone more powerful than you, like that tax collector who keeps forgetting you already paid him the tax, four times already!  A neutral character in a chaotic mindset does what he needs to do to get by.  He might associate with a few close friends, or he might not.  He might change friends as often as he changes his clothes.  (Or probably more so, as cleaning clothes is a whole lot of unnecessary work.)But does it “function?”  Probably not, but no one cares!</blockquote>

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