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<blockquote data-quote="Drifter Bob" data-source="post: 1774026" data-attributes="member: 17723">That doesn't mean that his policies as a leader were socialist.&nbsp; Ronald Reagan used to be a liberal as a youth, does that mean that he was a liberal president?As I have pointed out, nearly every monarch, i.e. king or queen over the ages years has instituted social programs of one kind or another.&nbsp; Does that make them socialists? Rather than write the response to this that I am itching to write, (and which I would tell in a second if you were here in person to discuss this with in a bar room or something) I am going to recognize something about the internet.A wize man once told me that arguing on the internet is like entering the special olympics.&nbsp; Even if you win, you are still retarded.I would also like to propose a theory, which I will call the Alignment Uncertainty Princple.&nbsp; This is a variation of Heisenburgs Unceratinty principle, known to students of Quantum Mechanics, which states that you cannot know the true state of observed phenomena, because the act of observing actually changes the phenomena.I now believe that one cannot understand alignments as presented in D&amp;D, because one's own alignment will get in the way.&nbsp; Thus if you are lawful, you will percieve chaos as evil.&nbsp; If you are chaotic, you will percieve law as evil.&nbsp; If you are yourself evil, you will tend to percieve evil as good, and good as evil&nbsp; (a manichean outlook)This is why alignment has been so confusing to those of us who play D&amp;D!DB</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Drifter Bob, post: 1774026, member: 17723"] That doesn't mean that his policies as a leader were socialist. Ronald Reagan used to be a liberal as a youth, does that mean that he was a liberal president? As I have pointed out, nearly every monarch, i.e. king or queen over the ages years has instituted social programs of one kind or another. Does that make them socialists? Rather than write the response to this that I am itching to write, (and which I would tell in a second if you were here in person to discuss this with in a bar room or something) I am going to recognize something about the internet. A wize man once told me that arguing on the internet is like entering the special olympics. Even if you win, you are still retarded. I would also like to propose a theory, which I will call the Alignment Uncertainty Princple. This is a variation of Heisenburgs Unceratinty principle, known to students of Quantum Mechanics, which states that you cannot know the true state of observed phenomena, because the act of observing actually changes the phenomena. I now believe that one cannot understand alignments as presented in D&D, because one's own alignment will get in the way. Thus if you are lawful, you will percieve chaos as evil. If you are chaotic, you will percieve law as evil. If you are yourself evil, you will tend to percieve evil as good, and good as evil (a manichean outlook) This is why alignment has been so confusing to those of us who play D&D! DB [/QUOTE]

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