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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 9314067" data-attributes="member: 4937">I don't think we can make blanket statements like that, and in any event this seems to have moved from being a discussion about alignment to a discussion of your real world political beliefs.&nbsp; The causes of poverty are complicated.&nbsp; While it is an interesting moral question as to whether poverty excuses theft, all we can address on this board is the extent to which Lawful or Chaotic types are likely to agree that poverty is an excuse for theft.&nbsp; If you want to have an interesting discussion about the politics of Ursula K. LeGuin's &quot;The Dispossed&quot;, well that's not really something we're supposed to be doing here.I think we can say that on the whole Lawful types are less likely to say your circumstances excuses you from breaking moral and civil law, and Chaotic types are more likely to say that your circumstances do excuse you from breaking moral and civil law.&nbsp; And so I think we can safely say that LG types are more likely to still think theft requires a penalty to be paid even if the motives were sympathetic than a CG type.&nbsp; But a discussion of which position is morally correct in the real world is inevitably going to outside the scope of what we can discuss because it will bring up topics of argument outside of permissiable discussion.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 9314067, member: 4937"] I don't think we can make blanket statements like that, and in any event this seems to have moved from being a discussion about alignment to a discussion of your real world political beliefs. The causes of poverty are complicated. While it is an interesting moral question as to whether poverty excuses theft, all we can address on this board is the extent to which Lawful or Chaotic types are likely to agree that poverty is an excuse for theft. If you want to have an interesting discussion about the politics of Ursula K. LeGuin's "The Dispossed", well that's not really something we're supposed to be doing here. I think we can say that on the whole Lawful types are less likely to say your circumstances excuses you from breaking moral and civil law, and Chaotic types are more likely to say that your circumstances do excuse you from breaking moral and civil law. And so I think we can safely say that LG types are more likely to still think theft requires a penalty to be paid even if the motives were sympathetic than a CG type. But a discussion of which position is morally correct in the real world is inevitably going to outside the scope of what we can discuss because it will bring up topics of argument outside of permissiable discussion. [/QUOTE]

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