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<blockquote data-quote="lluewhyn" data-source="post: 7544193" data-attributes="member: 6887379">Yep. Attempting to match the alignment system to fiction typically shows the flaws of the alignment system. How could you define Giles as Lawful Good when he later murders an individual for the greater good? The alignment system itself doesn't handle committing acts of extreme evil for good purposes very well, other than to say that the character is now on a slippery slope towards turning evil and will soon act for evil purposes. Nor does it handle the Faith/Mayor relationship very well, where they're both acting evil towards the world but very loving and good towards each other.There are many characters in genre fiction, especially those with darker tones (lot of the stuff in the 90s), that I would describe as being more Anti-Evil than actually Good. They fight the forces of darkness, but otherwise don't go out of their way to help people, might actually let innocents die in the name of the greater good, and are generally not terribly pleasant to be around.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="lluewhyn, post: 7544193, member: 6887379"] Yep. Attempting to match the alignment system to fiction typically shows the flaws of the alignment system. How could you define Giles as Lawful Good when he later murders an individual for the greater good? The alignment system itself doesn't handle committing acts of extreme evil for good purposes very well, other than to say that the character is now on a slippery slope towards turning evil and will soon act for evil purposes. Nor does it handle the Faith/Mayor relationship very well, where they're both acting evil towards the world but very loving and good towards each other. There are many characters in genre fiction, especially those with darker tones (lot of the stuff in the 90s), that I would describe as being more Anti-Evil than actually Good. They fight the forces of darkness, but otherwise don't go out of their way to help people, might actually let innocents die in the name of the greater good, and are generally not terribly pleasant to be around. [/QUOTE]

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