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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 1187352" data-attributes="member: 7240">Even if alignment were a good system, which it most certainly is not, to expect it to function as a totalizing system is kind of absurd. A Paladin's experience should be primarily defined by the situations in which being Lawful and being Good are in conflict. Even if the concept of "Lawful Good" were a sensible one, to expect that it would always provide easily discoverable correct answers is absurd. The fact that characters experience internal conflict about their alignment is one of the few signs that it is succeeding, not a sign that it is failing. If it didn't contain paradoxes and conflicts within it, it would be an even worse system as it would rob people of human agency and free will.Thus, I reject the idea that Augustine's teleological worldview is a completely lawful one.</blockquote>