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<blockquote data-quote="countgray" data-source="post: 1812150" data-attributes="member: 18338"><p>Imagine a conflict along the lines of Rome versus the Gauls.</p><p></p><p>You have this highly lawful civilization trying to bring order to a chaotic, nature-oriented society that does mostly what they please and is not very respectful of authority.</p><p></p><p>Rome was very good in some respects, but tyranistic and ruthless in others. Which civilization had the better quality of life? More of an aesthetic choice really.</p><p>---------</p><p>Alternatively, imagine the industrial revolution that brought radical change to a formerly agrarian and pastoral society. A lot of people fell victim to poverty and poor working conditions and pollution in the name of progress. But new science and technology brought all sorts of improvements. The bad guys of the industrial revolution were Robber Barrons and Slum Lords and Sweat Shops. The bad guys on the pastoral side were the luddites and the saboteurs--who threw their wooden shoes, or "sabots" into the gears of machinery to disrupt production.</p><p>----------</p><p>Another more modern analogy would be the Hippie movement of the 60's which advocated peace and love and freedom and which was a reaction to 50's society which was prosperous but highly ordered, conservative and constrained. On the one hand you have conventional America with lifestyles akin to Beaver Cleaver and I Love Lucy but you also have McCarthy and Vietnam and the Cold War, while on the other hand the Hippies had communes, wild and unconventional dress & hairstyles, free love, eschewing traditional jobs for experimental lifestyles, but the bad side was problems with drugs, radical movements that perpetrated terrorism, and a lot of social disruption.</p><p>-----------</p><p>The above three are examples of societies conflicting more along the Law vs. Chaos axis. In all 3 examples you have elements of good & evil on both sides, but neither side is wholly good or evil, and who is the protagonist and who is the antagonist depends entirely on your point of view and whether you identify more with the free-spirited side or the side that represents ordered society.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="countgray, post: 1812150, member: 18338"] Imagine a conflict along the lines of Rome versus the Gauls. You have this highly lawful civilization trying to bring order to a chaotic, nature-oriented society that does mostly what they please and is not very respectful of authority. Rome was very good in some respects, but tyranistic and ruthless in others. Which civilization had the better quality of life? More of an aesthetic choice really. --------- Alternatively, imagine the industrial revolution that brought radical change to a formerly agrarian and pastoral society. A lot of people fell victim to poverty and poor working conditions and pollution in the name of progress. But new science and technology brought all sorts of improvements. The bad guys of the industrial revolution were Robber Barrons and Slum Lords and Sweat Shops. The bad guys on the pastoral side were the luddites and the saboteurs--who threw their wooden shoes, or "sabots" into the gears of machinery to disrupt production. ---------- Another more modern analogy would be the Hippie movement of the 60's which advocated peace and love and freedom and which was a reaction to 50's society which was prosperous but highly ordered, conservative and constrained. On the one hand you have conventional America with lifestyles akin to Beaver Cleaver and I Love Lucy but you also have McCarthy and Vietnam and the Cold War, while on the other hand the Hippies had communes, wild and unconventional dress & hairstyles, free love, eschewing traditional jobs for experimental lifestyles, but the bad side was problems with drugs, radical movements that perpetrated terrorism, and a lot of social disruption. ----------- The above three are examples of societies conflicting more along the Law vs. Chaos axis. In all 3 examples you have elements of good & evil on both sides, but neither side is wholly good or evil, and who is the protagonist and who is the antagonist depends entirely on your point of view and whether you identify more with the free-spirited side or the side that represents ordered society. [/QUOTE]
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