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<blockquote data-quote="herald" data-source="post: 404866" data-attributes="member: 1112">Like Adam Smith? Smith teaches that by helping yourself, you help the group. Selfishness as altruism! Actually your right, to a point.Selfishness is good inasmuch as it is not negatively focused. I tend to think of Chaotic Good as being that sort of individual. Rugged individualism promotes independant thought and pushes advances through in many fields. Chaotic Good individuals remind people that we have rights. We have we don't have to have a rule for every action that might come down the pike. That we should think for themselves and do what's right.But not everyone can live with those ideals. Many people feel that they need some sort of uniformity to insure fairness. Lawful Good is not so much that they are bleeding hearts, inasmuch that we need a stable baseline to make sure that people can deal with each other fairly. Citizenship and communal mindedness are what I think off when I think of Lawful Good. The member that is part of a whole that makes him greater. That membership could range from many things, and it might even be vague, but it exists.Any group of people can run the spectrum of these concepts. All of these people everyday make thousands of choices every day and most will fluctuate on this scale to some degree. It what we are. We are constantly learning, growing and changing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="herald, post: 404866, member: 1112"] [B]Like Adam Smith? Smith teaches that by helping yourself, you help the group. Selfishness as altruism![/B] Actually your right, to a point. Selfishness is good inasmuch as it is not negatively focused. I tend to think of Chaotic Good as being that sort of individual. Rugged individualism promotes independant thought and pushes advances through in many fields. Chaotic Good individuals remind people that we have rights. We have we don't have to have a rule for every action that might come down the pike. That we should think for themselves and do what's right. But not everyone can live with those ideals. Many people feel that they need some sort of uniformity to insure fairness. Lawful Good is not so much that they are bleeding hearts, inasmuch that we need a stable baseline to make sure that people can deal with each other fairly. Citizenship and communal mindedness are what I think off when I think of Lawful Good. The member that is part of a whole that makes him greater. That membership could range from many things, and it might even be vague, but it exists. Any group of people can run the spectrum of these concepts. All of these people everyday make thousands of choices every day and most will fluctuate on this scale to some degree. It what we are. We are constantly learning, growing and changing. [/QUOTE]

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