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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 3288919" data-attributes="member: 22424">Always dangerous talking about the alignments of real-world figures... so I won't. However, the point I was trying to get at is that the lords in the Robin Hood example were basically using their authority to force the peasants to pay excessive taxes. By contrast, Gates and Trump, despite some questionable business practices, don't go that far. You never actually have to buy the latest Windows... you can choose to try to manage without.No. That was the bit I said about not being beholden to the specific laws in place. Where the laws are clearly unjust or unworkable, the Lawful character is, of course, free to step outside them. However, where the laws are merely inconvenient the Lawful character should follow them as best he can. (An example here is speed limits. These clearly aren't particularly unjust, although in some cases the limit applied has been set incorrectly for the road. And, in most cases, a few extra MPH won't hurt anyone. And yet, the Lawful character should generally accept the inconvenience of the set limit, because he will acknowledge that there needs to be some limit, and allowing everyone to just pick and choose their own limits can lead to real dangers.)Yes, that was addressed by Shilsen, above. I've softened my position somewhat.</blockquote>