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<blockquote data-quote="Hemlock Stones" data-source="post: 1566748" data-attributes="member: 19278"><p><strong>Please Stop Inciting Me... I Wanna Go To Sleep</strong></p><p></p><p>GREETINGS!</p><p></p><p>First its hard to measure D&D Law with all of the previous analogies related to modern legal considerations. Too many loopholes essentially. Lawful is a misnomer. The intention was that lawful was intended to be analogous to ordered.</p><p></p><p>Seeing as how we are applying colorful analogies to the interpretation of law, please consider this axiom. Hot and cold are not two polar opposites. Cold is the absence of heat. That being said. Does order exist and chaos is the absence of order? Or do we consider randomness as being the natural way of things? Hence: Chaos is natural therefore order is the intentional premeditated assembly of random elements into a cohesive union.</p><p></p><p>Going a step further, consider this. We always place good and evil as two polar opposites. I've always thought of it as a troika: Good, Bad and Evil. I arrived at this from my religious teachings as a Christian in trying to identify the nature of sin. If you don't kill somebody, that's considered good. If you go out and intentionally slay somebody, that's evil. If while out in the world something you do inadvertently results in the death of somebody that's bad. Granted this is a simplification of one the most complex philosophical elements in life. This doesn't even scratch the surface of how the multitude of ramifications apply to any one of the three in the troika. When I say ramifications. I am talking about: social, legal, political, emotional, etc.</p><p></p><p>Roleplaying games take us into situations where we rise to the occasion and are victorious. (Notice I avoided any mention of alignment in that statement.) Sometimes we have to do things that are unpleasant and go against what we might otherwise prefer to do. We evaluate a means to best arrive at the ends that will best suit us. Sometimes we settle for less. Sometimes we fail. Sometimes things remain same. No matter what, we roll on and role on. Finding gratification from the stimulation of using our minds to solve problems that we don't have to face in the real world.</p><p></p><p>So Sayeth the Bone Daddy!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hemlock Stones, post: 1566748, member: 19278"] [b]Please Stop Inciting Me... I Wanna Go To Sleep[/b] GREETINGS! First its hard to measure D&D Law with all of the previous analogies related to modern legal considerations. Too many loopholes essentially. Lawful is a misnomer. The intention was that lawful was intended to be analogous to ordered. Seeing as how we are applying colorful analogies to the interpretation of law, please consider this axiom. Hot and cold are not two polar opposites. Cold is the absence of heat. That being said. Does order exist and chaos is the absence of order? Or do we consider randomness as being the natural way of things? Hence: Chaos is natural therefore order is the intentional premeditated assembly of random elements into a cohesive union. Going a step further, consider this. We always place good and evil as two polar opposites. I've always thought of it as a troika: Good, Bad and Evil. I arrived at this from my religious teachings as a Christian in trying to identify the nature of sin. If you don't kill somebody, that's considered good. If you go out and intentionally slay somebody, that's evil. If while out in the world something you do inadvertently results in the death of somebody that's bad. Granted this is a simplification of one the most complex philosophical elements in life. This doesn't even scratch the surface of how the multitude of ramifications apply to any one of the three in the troika. When I say ramifications. I am talking about: social, legal, political, emotional, etc. Roleplaying games take us into situations where we rise to the occasion and are victorious. (Notice I avoided any mention of alignment in that statement.) Sometimes we have to do things that are unpleasant and go against what we might otherwise prefer to do. We evaluate a means to best arrive at the ends that will best suit us. Sometimes we settle for less. Sometimes we fail. Sometimes things remain same. No matter what, we roll on and role on. Finding gratification from the stimulation of using our minds to solve problems that we don't have to face in the real world. So Sayeth the Bone Daddy! [/QUOTE]
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