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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 1122003" data-attributes="member: 6533">Not to get too into this conversation, but I wonder about the emphasis on love as a 'good' thing.From a strictly moral stand-point the relationship between sex and love is a pleasant thing, but there is certainly nothing wrong with having sex with someone you don't love as long as you are responsible about the long term implications of the love-making, including the ends and goals of the activity.And that is what I believe the real emphasis of LG on sexual relationships would be, are you being responsible about the consequences of your sexual acts?  Are you performing them for a good end?And I think that for a LG character that consideration of responsibility covers not simply immediate and likely consequences but would almost be more concerned with long term and possible consequences.LG would not be likely to enter into any sort of romantic relationship that would disrupt a beneficial social structure, even if they might be in love.  And included in that would be a tendency to avoid any romantic relationship that conflicted with marriage goals.Also in line with that I doubt that any LG character would enter into a romantic relationship where the question of supporting potential and actual progeny wasn't well established and satisfied ahead of the deed.  I mean to the point where secret marriages would be a terrible huge no no since it means that adoption might be messed up in the case of the death of both parents.  LG are the sorts who started setting up funds for their children as soon as they began working and who pick Godparents based both on moral and material ability.That and they would be willing to adjust a lot of their behaviour to social norms.  Even in a NE society there will be elements of behaviour that work to preserve the futurity of the society, and since no society is nearly always worse than a bad society LG will be willing to make some accomadations.  This might indeed include a certain amount of societally enfranchised whoring, as long as the means of taking care of potential progeny are clearly understood and strongly enforced within the society or within the character's means.My main point, however, is that I think LG characters are the most, even to the point of probability, likely to sacrifice love and pleasure to social responsibility.C'mon this is the literary archetype that joins the foriegn legion to hide from his heart.  Not the type to pursue love through dale and bower.</blockquote>

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