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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AlViking" data-source="post: 9885220" data-attributes="member: 6906980">Saying that everyone and anyone that is CN or CE is insane makes the alignments useless and leaves out the majority of personality types that would qualify for those alignments.  I view options for someone being chaotic as someone who believes in personal freedoms, ignores law, does not automatically obey or respect someone simply because of their title or position of authority as chaotic.  They may value anarchy over structure, a lot of people do.  Perfidia from One Battle After Another is chaotic - whether she's good, evil or in-between is a matter of opinion (and an oversimplification) but I don't think she's insane.I think the best take on alignment was in the 3e books where they actually spend a couple of pages talking about what it means, what you describe is either chaotic insane* or chaotic stupid which makes it pointless.  People of every alignment can be insane.  Unless of course you're extremely lawful and believe anyone that doesn't think in a proscribed manner is insane which would be a very LN way of looking at the world. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />*Also someone no one would want in their party.  It's a very 2e take on CN - someone that follows the "You might switch sides in the middle of battle to see what happens" will soon find out that what happens is that they're no longer part of the group.  It was a dumb take on the complexity of people's outlook and motivations then and it still is IMO.</blockquote>

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