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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bganon" data-source="post: 6761740" data-attributes="member: 60886">This is getting a bit off-topic, but I can't help myself...I agree that the Sith code is CE, but I always saw Anakin as a classic example of LE.  He really believes in order and rules, but he's just too selfish and can't stand not being the one making the rules.  Nevertheless, he's a Jedi for over a decade before a combination of loyalty to Palpatine and long-simmering frustration with Jedi inaction pushes him to the dark side.  He abandoned his mother because the Jedi told him to.  Once he falls, he commits fully to purging the Jedi seemingly because that's what Sith do (according to Palpatine, anyway) and he then maintains that allegiance for another twenty years.  None of this seems to me like the behavior of someone who doesn't believe in order or rules.  Not every action he takes is LE (but who acts 100% in line with their alignment), but even his betrayal of Lando is principled - he doesn't honor deals made with criminals or terrorists, which is something plenty of real-life lawful organizations adhere to.Palpatine, on the other hand, I have always considered a fantastic example of how to play CE without being Chaotic Stupid.  He manipulates the laws to his benefit and sets himself up at the head of an Empire, but he clearly doesn't believe in any of that.  For him, laws/loyalty/oaths are just tools to exploit for personal power and discard when no longer useful.  And he constantly foments conflict around him to set up win-win situations for himself - the whole plot of Phantom Menace, Order 66, Anakin vs Dooku, Luke vs Vader.  Only the last one doesn't quite work out for him.</blockquote>

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