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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jsaving" data-source="post: 2834327" data-attributes="member: 16726">Good characters "protect innocent life," according to the core rules.  They don't necessarily protect all life, they don't necessarily refuse to torture any life, they just do their best to protect innocent life.  By that standard Jack Bauer has to be considered Good.  Clearly some of the posters here don't see him as mirroring their own alignment or their own conception of Good, but he does match the PH conception of it.Lawful characters "keep their word, respect authority, honor tradition, and judge those who fall short of their duties."  Bauer certainly doesn't respect authority or honor tradition -- he does what it takes to follow his conscience no matter who he has to disobey in so doing.  Which partially matches the core rules' view of Chaotic characters, who are defined as people who "follow their consciences" and "resent being told what to do."Is he an Exalted character as James Wyatt defined the term in BoED?  No, because Wyatt sees torture as always wrong no matter how evil the being you are torturing or how many lives you might save by committing the torture.  But he makes clear he is NOT talking about whether someone is Good or Evil -- it's perfectly OK for someone to flunk the Exalted test while still having a Good alignment.  All that means is that you aren't (or in this case, Bauer isn't) among the small subset of Good-aligned people who are Exalted.   Does his repeated disobedience of authority make him Chaotic?  Not necessarily, because he does generally keep his word once it is given.  Recall Henderson's words to Bauer in the last episode -- "I want you to give me your word because it's the only way I can trust you" (or something to that effect).  Not that he always keeps his word, but he generally does, and is genuinely conflicted in the rare instances when he breaks it.  So in this respect he's more Lawful than Chaotic.I'd call him a non-Exalted CG character with NG tendencies (or maybe NG with CG tendencies).</blockquote>

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