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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Falling Icicle" data-source="post: 6315173" data-attributes="member: 17077">[HTML][/HTML]A cause doesn't have to include rigid rules and regulations. Chaos, as an alignment, encompasses many things, including concepts such as freedom and liberty. A CG paladin might be a champion of liberty that interprets his alignment and mission by fighting to end slavery everywhere he finds it, for example. Sure, you could say that "spread freedom" is a "rule" of his belief system, but there's nothing about that that makes it incompatible with a chaotic alignment. Chaotic people aren't purely random in what they do. They can still believe in things, have habits, etc. just like everyone else. It's just that, when push comes to shove, they care far more about the spirit of the rules than rules themselves. They follow their hearts, not the dictates of some law. A Lawful paladin looks at things from the perspective of "I'm not allowed to do X; it's my duty to do X, etc." A chaotic paladin would look at things from the perspective of "I believe X is the right thing to do."If what you were suggesting were true, it wouldn't be possible to have chaotic deities or religions with dogmas, devoted followers, etc, because any chaotic deity would have to be some totally random being that changes its views on a whim all the time. Otherwise, it would be "following a rule" by believing in something. Except, that's not what being Chaotic alignment is; that's insanity.But in any case, it's all of the arguments over just what alignments mean, and how they lead to purely arbitrary restrictions against valid character concepts, that make me hate them.</blockquote>

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