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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5633551" data-attributes="member: 4937">CN values individual liberty and the respecting of individual liberty above all things.  As a short cut, I describe this stance as, "Harm no one; do as you please.".   Presumably the CN deity values the independence and willfullness of his clergy.   Presumably he wants clerics that take initiative and stand up for what they believe.   As he doesn't particularly favor either the CE or CG fronts of his church, he probably views their quarrels in a pragmatic way - it cuts down on the number of individuals straying dangerously away from the true path of nuetrality.  I see no reason why he would back or fail to back either side.  What do you expect, for the god to be a hypocrite and start smiting those who don't practice the virtue of being laid back and really super tolerant of everything?The only thing here that I see the CN deity frown on is the CG cleric not getting the job done himself, and instead passing the responcibility on to 'the authorities'.  If you are going to act, don't try to get someone else to act for you.  Both tyranny and slavery have their root, he would believe, in people abdicating responcibility for themselves.Interestingly, it's concievable to have two different CN groups murdering each other over what is the correct interpretation of CN thought.  For example, what would you get if a branch of the church with a world view comparable to Ann Rand's objectivist followers started having fights with a bunch of hippies?  Both of them believe in fighting the system (often by dropping out of it), 'if it feels good do it', and freedom of expression.  But they take those beliefs in very different cultural directions, at least on the surface.  And sometimes, for the purpose of hating each other, it's just the surface that counts.</blockquote>

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