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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6632583" data-attributes="member: 177">You seem to be begging the question (meaning &quot;assuming the conclusion&quot;).&nbsp; You've effectively said, &quot;He is evil, and thus why should he care about social order?&quot;, implicitly deciding that being evil is actually his top priority, and that always overrides all other priorities, before determining why he has priorities - thus deciding the question as you ask it.&nbsp; But, you could just as easily say, &quot;He's lawful, so why does he care about screwing people?&quot;&nbsp; In reality, humans (and, by extension, all the fantasy races) can hold multiple priorities in high priority, even when they conflict.&nbsp; I isn't, &quot;he's evil, so everything else goes out the window&quot;.&nbsp; It is, he's evil, *and* he's lawful.&nbsp; And sometimes, those will conflict - adhering to the social order will get in the way of him screwing others for his own benefit on occasion, and vice versa.The same thing holds for the Lawful Good Character - sometimes, the social order does not provide the most Good.&nbsp; You're a Paladin - you deal with it.&nbsp; It gives you reasons for angst and pathos, which build character... kind of literally <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 6632583, member: 177"] You seem to be begging the question (meaning "assuming the conclusion"). You've effectively said, "He is evil, and thus why should he care about social order?", implicitly deciding that being evil is actually his top priority, and that always overrides all other priorities, before determining why he has priorities - thus deciding the question as you ask it. But, you could just as easily say, "He's lawful, so why does he care about screwing people?" In reality, humans (and, by extension, all the fantasy races) can hold multiple priorities in high priority, even when they conflict. I isn't, "he's evil, so everything else goes out the window". It is, he's evil, *and* he's lawful. And sometimes, those will conflict - adhering to the social order will get in the way of him screwing others for his own benefit on occasion, and vice versa. The same thing holds for the Lawful Good Character - sometimes, the social order does not provide the most Good. You're a Paladin - you deal with it. It gives you reasons for angst and pathos, which build character... kind of literally :) [/QUOTE]

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