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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Clueless" data-source="post: 2830039" data-attributes="member: 11802">I've always felt a better word for the concept of a lawful alignment is an "orderly" alignment. It's not the outside influence of laws (and ignoring or not ignoring them) that makes the difference, but an internal way of thinking and approaching a problem. Calling it lawful just seems to attach a whole lot of extra meaning to the alignment that I'm not sure was meant to be there.Movie gangsters for example are *quite* lawful (orderly) within their own codes and self imposed rules. They don't commit their crimes randomly or without a legitimate (if distinctly icky) reason. They don't go overboard in their actions if it's not called for.Like how chaos==evil, I believe lawful==rule-abiding may not be the best way to look at things.</blockquote>