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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadence" data-source="post: 6267197" data-attributes="member: 6701124">Stuck on personal codes that don't have outside enforcement...A contemplative sword master comes up with his own elaborate code of conduct and has written it down.  It takes into account his philosophy of what rules are required for a sustainable or improvable society.  He does not believe in making personal sacrifices to help other individuals (it encourages the thriving of those who make bad choices) or in harming others for the sake of convenience (it stops the less millitant from thriving and contributing intellectually) .  All 118 of the exhortations and prohibitions make sense in plain English/common.  He will teach it to those who ask, but most find it too demanding and he doesn't seek out opportunities to spread it.   He follows other laws and traditions that don't contradict this fixed code because he is innately in favor of order.  No one external makes him stick to his code and he has no personal authority to force it on others.  He is honest in all his dealings.   He expects others to have and use a well thought out code of actions, whether divine, legal, or personal, and judges them based on how they follow it -- and he expects it to be an actual code and not just an excuse to do what they find easiest, most enjoyable, or most expedient.   If 3e is incoherent (and it would seemingly be LN there)... where does it go in the 1e/2e alignment system.  It seems to contradict both good and evil, and it certainly doesn't "place randomness and disorder" above everything else.</blockquote>

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