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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andor" data-source="post: 5858121" data-attributes="member: 1879">Balance is just a very specific form of chaos that permits some order by controlling how much of it there is. That's just chaotic without being entirely boring.- Fixed it for you.More to the point Lawful Neutral, or pure law is not originally based on any sort of human perspective. It's not alles in ordnung it's Moorcocks Law, perfect, crystalline, still, lifeless. Chaos is not freedom or libertarianism, it is a seething froth of change and formlessness, not dead perhaps but nothing we would enjoy as a life.True Neutrality in the old school sense is is recognition that humanity cannot survive in the crystalline stillness of Pure Law nor in the shapeless morass of Pure Chaos. It is not a self-limiting from of government, it is self-preservation in the face of forces which would destroy the universe if one became ascendant.Now those literary roots have been somewhat lost in recent editions but this is not mere human law vs lawlessness we are talking about in the grand cosmological sense. For example in Madeline L'Engles "A wrinkle in time" the world that had fallen to darkness was one possessed by law but not reduced to stillness because it was Lawful Evil and wanted something to rule. That's why you had streetfulls of kids all bouncing their balls in perfect synchronicity.That is the kind of "Law" Mordenkainen opposes, not lawn watering regulations.</blockquote>