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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hardhead" data-source="post: 1200146" data-attributes="member: 2844">I think that's a fallacious extrapolation.  They "lack the commitment to make sacrifices to help or protect others."  If the CEO knwos that doing A boosts his stock but causes Bob the Midling to go bankrupt, the LN character will do A.  He won't sacrifice his own wealth gain to help Bob the Midling.  And he's working within the law, so he reasons that it's OK.  After all, someone has to be the looser in capitalism.Yet the LN character might see it as part of the game of politics.  Someone like Vetinari, the Patriarch of Ankh-Morpork is probably LN.  He was a well-acomplished assassain before, (in a city where assassination is considered legal and regulated), and now he has no moral compunction doing in less-than-nice things, but does it all for the overall benefit of the city, the continuation of order, and views it all through the lens of someone playing a great game of chess.  He doesn't want to hurt people, but he doesn't not want to hurt them, either.  And he's VERY lawful.  He's the iconic LN character in my mind.Also, I don't think spreading lies makes someone "evil," unless it was framing them for murder or something.</blockquote>