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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9312576" data-attributes="member: 18">Yeah if you have to follow every law, it's like if you treat Evil as having to quite literally kick every puppy!Following every law mindlessly is just Lawful Stupid. It also creates hilarious situations like, whenever you get to a new place, you'd have to run straight to their courts and start trying to understand their legal system - and many legal systems don't even have clearly codified laws - especially in this era. They just have really elaborate sets of precedents stemming from a much smaller number of laws, so you'd basically need to get the equivalent of a law degree and maybe pass the bar in every place you visited that had different laws, to even try and follow every law! For bonus fun - guards and the citizenry also probably don't understand the laws in much detail, and you can get your bottom dollar guards will straight-up make up completely fictional laws to arrest people they don't like (a time-honoured practice that continues to this day in every country on the planet!). What do you do with the fictional laws? How do you even recognise them. Unless you're like, a Cleric of the Omniscient Grand Lawyer and he's beaming up-to-the-second legal advice directly into your ear 24/7, you're just doomed trying to follow every law.It's just straight-up insanity.This is how 99% of CN characters are RP'd in my experience.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9312576, member: 18"] Yeah if you have to follow every law, it's like if you treat Evil as having to quite literally kick every puppy! Following every law mindlessly is just Lawful Stupid. It also creates hilarious situations like, whenever you get to a new place, you'd have to run straight to their courts and start trying to understand their legal system - and many legal systems don't even have clearly codified laws - especially in this era. They just have really elaborate sets of precedents stemming from a much smaller number of laws, so you'd basically need to get the equivalent of a law degree and maybe pass the bar in every place you visited that had different laws, to even try and follow every law! For bonus fun - guards and the citizenry also probably don't understand the laws in much detail, and you can get your bottom dollar guards will straight-up make up completely fictional laws to arrest people they don't like (a time-honoured practice that continues to this day in every country on the planet!). What do you do with the fictional laws? How do you even recognise them. Unless you're like, a Cleric of the Omniscient Grand Lawyer and he's beaming up-to-the-second legal advice directly into your ear 24/7, you're just doomed trying to follow every law. It's just straight-up insanity. This is how 99% of CN characters are RP'd in my experience. [/QUOTE]

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