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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kaodi" data-source="post: 3671581" data-attributes="member: 1231">In the real world, alignment detection would be worse than useless. Much worse.Anyway...The problem with societies based on outlawing opposing alignments is it is impossible to guess the consequences of most actions. A neutral good cleric of a neutral good god can use holy word on an evil yugoloth who is serving an archfiend, and is holding a sphere containing a powerful spirit that will destroy the world in this most horrific way possible. If the holy word causes the yugoloth to be destroyed, and it drops the sphere, shattering it, unleashing doom upon the world, a theoretically good act directly leads to the most despicable of evils. Reverse the situation, and an evil act could lead to the most wondrous of goods. While I think the proverb, " The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. " was probably derived as a tool for controlling the populace, rather than as a true warning, I doubt that cleric is going to be spending a lot of time basking in his deities radiance after death. Probably a lot of toiling at the crappiest jobs in Heaven for him or her.As for alignment as a predictor of behavior... Good people sometimes do bad things, lawful people can break the law, chaotic people can uphold the law and evil people can be incredibly selfish without ever resorting to truly evil tactics. Lawful is not synonymous with authoritarian and chaotic is not synonymous with libertarian, though in both cases there is some correlation.</blockquote>

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