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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7261555" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>Well, I agree that the comparison to Hitler is tasteless... though completely in line with the general tastelessness of society lately, so the OP is hardly to be held accountable for that. He's certainly breaking no social norms.</p><p></p><p>I'll object mainly that while German society was lawful and orderly, Hitler was not actually in any fashion an embodiment of that. It's on par with the irony that Hitler's society declared that the ideal man was blond, fair, tall, fit, morally pure, and physically without flaw when Hitler was in fact none of those things. Hitler was a short, weak eyed, weak jawed, dark haired, unathletic man with chronic drug addictions. In the same fashion, Hitler was a narcissistic megalomaniac who did everything according to personal whim and pitted his own allies against each other, while at the same time preaching the virtues of an orderly society where the individual was less important than the state.</p><p></p><p>Or in other words, while the Nazi state taken as a whole might well be Lawful Evil, it was pledging its loyalty and personal fealty to a man who was Chaotic Evil. Nazi Germany as a result was an economic basketcase, being micromanaged by a guy who trusted no one and who therefore always wanted at least two over everything so that no one had any power except on the word of Hitler. It was a political basketcase, because the law was meaningless. Everything was centralized in the hands of Hitler, who had sole authority to make any decisions of consequence, and who ruled by fear backed by his capricious and unpredictable temper. In short, the character of Hitler is nothing like the character of a person being influenced by the Rod of Seven Parts as the item is typically understood.</p><p></p><p>I agree that the goal of Pure Law is eternal infinite unchanging stasis - a perfectly crystalline indistinguishable infinite reality in which no one part can be distinguished from any other part. To that extent, the functional end of Law is basically no different than the functional end of Chaos, which is why in the Moorcraftian universe, only Neutrality provides any sort of moral framework.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7261555, member: 4937"] Well, I agree that the comparison to Hitler is tasteless... though completely in line with the general tastelessness of society lately, so the OP is hardly to be held accountable for that. He's certainly breaking no social norms. I'll object mainly that while German society was lawful and orderly, Hitler was not actually in any fashion an embodiment of that. It's on par with the irony that Hitler's society declared that the ideal man was blond, fair, tall, fit, morally pure, and physically without flaw when Hitler was in fact none of those things. Hitler was a short, weak eyed, weak jawed, dark haired, unathletic man with chronic drug addictions. In the same fashion, Hitler was a narcissistic megalomaniac who did everything according to personal whim and pitted his own allies against each other, while at the same time preaching the virtues of an orderly society where the individual was less important than the state. Or in other words, while the Nazi state taken as a whole might well be Lawful Evil, it was pledging its loyalty and personal fealty to a man who was Chaotic Evil. Nazi Germany as a result was an economic basketcase, being micromanaged by a guy who trusted no one and who therefore always wanted at least two over everything so that no one had any power except on the word of Hitler. It was a political basketcase, because the law was meaningless. Everything was centralized in the hands of Hitler, who had sole authority to make any decisions of consequence, and who ruled by fear backed by his capricious and unpredictable temper. In short, the character of Hitler is nothing like the character of a person being influenced by the Rod of Seven Parts as the item is typically understood. I agree that the goal of Pure Law is eternal infinite unchanging stasis - a perfectly crystalline indistinguishable infinite reality in which no one part can be distinguished from any other part. To that extent, the functional end of Law is basically no different than the functional end of Chaos, which is why in the Moorcraftian universe, only Neutrality provides any sort of moral framework. [/QUOTE]
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