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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 1917601" data-attributes="member: 7240">Not to be too picky here but I really don't mean "intent" when I say "operational function" -- operational function is what a thing causes regardless of the intent behind it. For instance, the British imperial legislation stating that a fee should be paid to anyone who brought a Beothuk Indian to their colonial office in Newfoundland was intended to cause the assimilation of the Beothuk. But because of the way the law was exectuted, unforeseen by parliament, it resulted in the total extermination of the Beothuk. So, if you don't mind, I'd like to hang onto the more polysyllabic term for two reasons: (a) because I am interested only in the effect of the rules on play and (b) I don't think that speculating about the writers' intent will be especially helpful to this discourse.I did not argue that chaotic people do not form groups; I argued that chaotic groups function less efficiently than lawful groups, sometimes dramatically so. Furthermore, this is not just true of collectives; the description of the Chaotic Evil alignment makes it pretty clear that this alignment handicaps you as an individual too. The rules clearly state that chaotic people can act collectively and go so far as to describe the less efficient ways that they do so.By the way, thanks, generally, for your contributions to the thread so far. Your insertion of new terminology and a new voice has been really helpful here in moving our discussion past the things on which it has been snagged for the past three pages.</blockquote>

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