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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 3524777" data-attributes="member: 4937">Well, he's the protagonist so you are probably right.  But I find several things that are interesting about Roy.  First, Roy is pretty blatantly held up in contrast to the other lawfuls appearing in the strip.  Of all the alignments, lawful good has probably been the least sympatheticly portrayed in the strip, outside of Roy.  Heck, even Chaotic Evil is shown with more sympathetically than most lawfuls in the strip - witness all the fans of Belkar and Zykon.  Secondly, Roy isn't all that lawful.  We only know of his lawfulness because he's said to be lawful.  But we know very little about the code of belief Roy supposedly adheres to.  I don't think I'd necessarily question Roy's lawfulness without this context, but lately I've been wondering what separates Roy from say 'nuetral good'?  Is it the respect he has for his father's wishes?  Is it the respect that he has for the traditions of marriage?  Is it his respect for societal norms, or his unwillingness to bend convention or law?  Is it his willingness to subordinate himself to some higher authority?  Is it is flexible attitude with respect to dealing with evil?  I'm beginning to feel that the basis of Rich's sympathy with Roy is his willingness to put aside lawful tenents when it would be beneficial to do so, which sounds alot more like like 'nuetral' on the law/chaos axis than lawful.Citing Roy's moral behavior doesn't consistute proof of lawfulness, since things like honesty, respect for life, and so forth are generally considered basic tenents of goodness.Is that the point though of 'lawful stupid'?  Isn't that the heart of the sterotype?  That being lawful makes you stupid, regardless of your actual intelligence?</blockquote>

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