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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9312488" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>I gave my opinion in some detail for LG and LE. And even that was a tiny fraction of the possibilities.</p><p></p><p>Each alignment's behaviour would vary wildly depending on their personality, goals long-term and short, personal values independent of alignment, level of intelligence, level of foresight re: the consequences of their actions, and so on. That's even without considering the situation of the person taking the goods, beyond that they appear poor. Let alone the society this is happening in.</p><p></p><p>As I pointed out, LE might be de facto indistinguishable from LG, depending on their goals and how able they were to think the situation and its consequences through.</p><p></p><p>Lawful characters don't have to follow the law, Chaotic characters don't have to ignore the crime. Good characters usually won't do something nasty - but if they're thoughtless, they might. Evil characters won't generally do something nice, but personal circumstances could mean that they did, or a longer-term goal could. The Complete Handbook of Villains did a superb job in illustrating this - there are villains who will help an old lady across a street, or give money to beggars, but who equally will think it's fine to kill thousands and thousands of people to resurrect their dead daughter or whatever - obviously someone who will kill thousands of innocents to resurrect one person is Evil, when the chips are down (and likely has done other Evil things in their life), but that might not be obvious.</p><p></p><p>I mean, hell, Chaotic Neutral, depending on the actual character and their personality, might be basically Diceman-ing it, and taking a random action, or they might just be selfish but not cruel and just ignore it - or if there was a reward they might decide, well, I need that reward, so I'll report this person even though I don't care about the law personally. Or they might think "I was poor once, I know how it is, I'm not reporting him even though there's a reward I'd like", just because that's their personality, even if they don't generally have any particular morals or standards.</p><p></p><p>To be clear - I don't think it's a "stupid question" or something, I think it's even kind of an interesting question, but it's a question that reveals how alignment is only one small factor in determining how an individual will act in a given situation. I do think we could have done with some more details of the situation though to be fair.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9312488, member: 18"] I gave my opinion in some detail for LG and LE. And even that was a tiny fraction of the possibilities. Each alignment's behaviour would vary wildly depending on their personality, goals long-term and short, personal values independent of alignment, level of intelligence, level of foresight re: the consequences of their actions, and so on. That's even without considering the situation of the person taking the goods, beyond that they appear poor. Let alone the society this is happening in. As I pointed out, LE might be de facto indistinguishable from LG, depending on their goals and how able they were to think the situation and its consequences through. Lawful characters don't have to follow the law, Chaotic characters don't have to ignore the crime. Good characters usually won't do something nasty - but if they're thoughtless, they might. Evil characters won't generally do something nice, but personal circumstances could mean that they did, or a longer-term goal could. The Complete Handbook of Villains did a superb job in illustrating this - there are villains who will help an old lady across a street, or give money to beggars, but who equally will think it's fine to kill thousands and thousands of people to resurrect their dead daughter or whatever - obviously someone who will kill thousands of innocents to resurrect one person is Evil, when the chips are down (and likely has done other Evil things in their life), but that might not be obvious. I mean, hell, Chaotic Neutral, depending on the actual character and their personality, might be basically Diceman-ing it, and taking a random action, or they might just be selfish but not cruel and just ignore it - or if there was a reward they might decide, well, I need that reward, so I'll report this person even though I don't care about the law personally. Or they might think "I was poor once, I know how it is, I'm not reporting him even though there's a reward I'd like", just because that's their personality, even if they don't generally have any particular morals or standards. To be clear - I don't think it's a "stupid question" or something, I think it's even kind of an interesting question, but it's a question that reveals how alignment is only one small factor in determining how an individual will act in a given situation. I do think we could have done with some more details of the situation though to be fair. [/QUOTE]
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