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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Epametheus" data-source="post: 1368288" data-attributes="member: 719">In theory, rulers have to watch out for what's best for their people, and what's best for group A might not be best for group B.  Cultural differences can also contribute this; think of an order of lawful good knights that regularly clashes with a tribe of chaotic good barbarians.  Both sides tend to do the right thing, but they simply don't see eye-to-eye with each other, and periodic skirmishing reinforces the bad blood between the two groups (that's part of the set-up of Suikoden III, actually).The problem is, those with the ambition to rule are usually a rather self-interested lot and are really just watching out for themselves.  I'm not sure if you can actually find a historical example of good vs. good.  Plenty of neutral vs. neutral and evil vs. evil, but not good vs. good.</blockquote>