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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Merkuri" data-source="post: 2988284" data-attributes="member: 41321">I think this may come from the fact that in our modern society "chaos" and "evil" are often interchangable, as are "lawful" and "good."  When you think of a "good" person, you think of someone who's reliable, tells the truth, meets deadlines, etc.  In fact, though, those are all "lawful" traits.  I had a similar discussion to this on another board.  I used the example of a warlord who vows to kill one of his own soldiers for every enemy left alive on the battlefield (to encourage his army to fight harder).  Even though he goes up against terrible odds and takes staggering losses, he continues to kill his own men.  He kept his word, thus he's lawful.  However, killing people as punishment (for failing to kill other people, no less) is a pretty evil thing to do.  (Disclaimer: a single action or series of action doth not an alignment make, IMO, but it's easier to explain things this way for the sake of discussion.)We tend to think of chaotic evil as "more evil" because chaos, unpredictability, and randomness are as much the bane of our society as evil (perhaps moreso).  So "chaotic evil" can read as "evil squared".Personally, I think any reference to chaotic evil being "more evil" is just silly.  Chaotic evil characters may act evil more often, or they may not.</blockquote>