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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 861570" data-attributes="member: 463">Yup, like I said - LG vs CG.Edit: Imposing Order for its own sake is LN not LG.  If Justice means something other than Law (and I think it does, in most people's speech) then Justice means Good Law, a pretty clear definition of what Lawful Good seeks.  Mercy tends to get in the way of Justice IMO, that's why I think CG tends to ignore Justice in the good-Law sense.  However CG characters are person-oriented.  An individualist Viking-type legal system where you have the right to seek out and slay your brother's killer (but not the killer of someone else's brother) may be characterised as CG in intent.  A modern legal system where revenge killing is outlawed and only sanctioned authorities can carry out retributive measures (arrrest, trial, imprisonment) seems Lawful, LG in intent.Lawful systems tend to promote order and the good of society over the welfare and autonomy of the individual.  Individuals' duties to society are emphasised.Systems that promote individual's rights and freedoms may be characterised as CG in D&D terms.  An insistence on a right to bear weapons as a means of maintaining individual autonomy, despite the wider costs, may be a CG philosophy.  Granting victims or their relatives rights within the legal system may be CG, systems that ignore the victim and focus on the crime as a 'crime against society' may be LG.  Balancing the needs of the individual vs the needs of wider society for the 'best good' seems to me to be NG.</blockquote>

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