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Message: <blockquote data-quote="D+1" data-source="post: 1117562" data-attributes="member: 13654">It's very difficult drawing analogies between RPG alignment and related behavior and The Real World (TRW).  TRW doesn't FUNCTION according to the rules and guides of RPG alignments.  Alignment is basically the extreme ends of two scales with NN in the middle as having no particular extremes.  Remember that alignment is NOT a replacement for a thorough, complex, comprehensive declaration of religious belief, philosophical ideals, or social norms.  That's WHY we have alignment for characters - to give us an idea of where a character stands without having to write small novels explaining what, how, and why a character believes certain things and acts in certain ways - but it still can't tell you all the details of the characters religious and philosphical beliefs or the nature of the society he lives in and how he interacts with that society.If you want to start by drawing a correlation between Christianity and LG then the idea of sex outside of marriage being within the bounds of LG is ludicrous.  Sex outside of marriage is a sin.  It depends somewhat on which denomination of Christianity you subscribe to as to how severely that sin is viewed - but it's still decidedly a sin and thus is NOT LG.Now when you move into a game world we are no longer limited by the morals and ethics of the real world.  RPG worlds can be a grey or as black/white as the DM can make it and the players can stand it.  The same rules simply don't apply.  Even in a historical fantasy setting a LG Christian character could do a lot of killing (probably even be EXPECTED to do a lot of killing) that a Real World Christian would know to be a mortal sin.When you postulate other religions or certain philosophical beliefs as being equivalent to LG that's different.The Federation of Star Trek, when you get right down to it, is a socialist, humanist utopia that only works by first assuming some really wacky things about the basic nature of man.  When you postulate the Federation, and more specifically the Federation as seen on one starship, as being your LG baseline then guilt-free, rampant, recreational sex is a given.  It's a society that has no religions, only spirituality.  It doesn't have even a governmental approval over marriage and a basic family unit much less religious ideology regarding it.  Marriage seems to be a strictly personal commitment with no legal or sociological fallout when it fails.  Hey, this is a world where only the most rare, the newest and most savage diseases ever occur - and most of those are cured by the end of the show.  Venereal diseases?  Herpes?  HA!  Unintended pregnancy?  Contraception?  What old-fashioned low-tech worries those are!  In the world of Trek sex has virtually no moral or ethical limitations or stigma so asking if LG people can sleep around in Trek, well the answer is just too obvious for words.</blockquote>

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