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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 4917961" data-attributes="member: 4937">The thing is, in a truly lawful good society, especially one with magical resources, the most uncomfortable difficulty that we have to face is that that propaganda might well be true.  I would imagine that a LG society would expend quite a bit of effort trying to find what the right place for each member in society was.  If I may contrast the two approaches, LE would be trying to remake its individuals over so that they would best serve their place in the society, but LG would be trying to make a  place in the society that best served the individuals.  Stepping back to look at society as a whole, the ultimate results might be superficially similar (people fulfilling roles that they are suited for), but I think at the level of the individual the two approaches would feel very different.  Or, maybe not.  Maybe it would grate on ones spirit (or at least some spirits) all the more that we were being told that we would be happiest as peasant farmers by people who really and sincerely wanted us to be happy, than it would to be forced at penalty of great duress to be peasant farmers for the sake of some greater power.  Maybe in the latter case we'd have the solace of our dreams, our hopes, and the feeling that our lot in life was somehow not our fault, and that this might ultimately be more satisfying than knowing our destiny and it not being everything we wanted it to be.Which returns us to the argument you often hear evil make, that good is actually more stiffling and more cruel than evil is, and that society actually needs someone putting its boot in our faces and needs someone to crush under its heel.On the other hand, probably if we were put in a position of comfortable slavery, many of us would happily stay there.  Maybe those that disparage freedom are actually right, maybe all we really want and what we really require to be happy is someone to take care of us and free us from that responsibility.  One of the problems a would be revolutionary in a LG tyranny would probably face is that by and large the peasants would probably be happy and content, and indeed might represent the biggest source of resistance to the idea of change, because they might legitimately see that they - and not the powerful - have the most to lose and the fartherest to fall.</blockquote>

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