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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 7177241" data-attributes="member: 6801845">WTF?&nbsp; I mean that.&nbsp; Seriously.&nbsp; Obviously stories written a century or more before alignment was written down are not going to reference them.&nbsp; [MENTION=6683613]TheCosmicKid[/MENTION] never claimed otherwise.I don't know of anyone other than you on this thread claiming otherwise.&nbsp; A few people now and then try to justify being jackasses by saying &quot;But I'm Chaotic Neutral&quot;.&nbsp; But that's a tiny, tiny minority.Concepts of good and evil?&nbsp; The idea that some people are righteous and good while others are depraved and evil? Old as mankind.Alignment is one tool we use to describe characters, npcs and monsters, much like height or weight (although those are a bit more concrete for most people).&nbsp; No single attribute, trait or flaw of a character defines that character.&nbsp; For people, it can be a little fuzzy but for some creatures such as demons and devils it goes to the core of what they are and how they interact with the world.As I said in my first response, which was in line with what the OP was asking, I view alignment as helping define how people see the world.&nbsp; Based on how they see the world you know how they are likely to respond.&nbsp; That's all.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 7177241, member: 6801845"] WTF? I mean that. Seriously. Obviously stories written a century or more before alignment was written down are not going to reference them. [MENTION=6683613]TheCosmicKid[/MENTION] never claimed otherwise. I don't know of anyone other than you on this thread claiming otherwise. A few people now and then try to justify being jackasses by saying "But I'm Chaotic Neutral". But that's a tiny, tiny minority. Concepts of good and evil? The idea that some people are righteous and good while others are depraved and evil? Old as mankind. Alignment is one tool we use to describe characters, npcs and monsters, much like height or weight (although those are a bit more concrete for most people). No single attribute, trait or flaw of a character defines that character. For people, it can be a little fuzzy but for some creatures such as demons and devils it goes to the core of what they are and how they interact with the world. As I said in my first response, which was in line with what the OP was asking, I view alignment as helping define how people see the world. Based on how they see the world you know how they are likely to respond. That's all. [/QUOTE]

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