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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 406736" data-attributes="member: 463">Would your parents tell me the Nazis weren't Evil?&nbsp; No.&nbsp; Lawful?&nbsp; In the sense that the Nine Hells are Lawful - D&amp;D Lawful, ie promoting Order (of a sort) - their regime was Lawful, IMO.&nbsp; They purged many of the Chaotic Evil types quite soon after taking power, as Machiavelli advocates: since Chaotics are useful when you're fighting a regime but in the end are never happy, whoever's in charge - better to eliminate them right away.&nbsp; Standard practice for all revolutionary movements.We-ell, I kinda regretted doing that.&nbsp; I mentioned it because there was a big thread earlier about the Alignment of the SW characters, could Vader &amp; Palpatine be a different Alignment from the Imperial military, etc.&nbsp; I have plenty of depth BTW.&nbsp; I just don't think there's much point discussing examples of evil alignments that you probably don't know about, like Ulster Loyalist and Irish Republican terrorists in Northern Ireland (where I'm from).Don't disagree with that at all, but generalisations are still possible.&nbsp; I'm typing this in London, England, which seems to me a fairly Lawful place - moreso than Northern Ireland, even though the crime rate is higher.&nbsp; The Celtic parts of the British Isles don't have quite as strongly internalised a sense of lawfulness as the Anglo-Saxon parts, I've noticed - I'm mostly Celtic in culture myself, ergo I'm sometimes surprised just how law-abiding the English naturally are.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 406736, member: 463"] Would your parents tell me the Nazis weren't Evil? No. Lawful? In the sense that the Nine Hells are Lawful - D&D Lawful, ie promoting Order (of a sort) - their regime was Lawful, IMO. They purged many of the Chaotic Evil types quite soon after taking power, as Machiavelli advocates: since Chaotics are useful when you're fighting a regime but in the end are never happy, whoever's in charge - better to eliminate them right away. Standard practice for all revolutionary movements. [B][/B] We-ell, I kinda regretted doing that. I mentioned it because there was a big thread earlier about the Alignment of the SW characters, could Vader & Palpatine be a different Alignment from the Imperial military, etc. I have plenty of depth BTW. I just don't think there's much point discussing examples of evil alignments that you probably don't know about, like Ulster Loyalist and Irish Republican terrorists in Northern Ireland (where I'm from). [B][/B] Don't disagree with that at all, but generalisations are still possible. I'm typing this in London, England, which seems to me a fairly Lawful place - moreso than Northern Ireland, even though the crime rate is higher. The Celtic parts of the British Isles don't have quite as strongly internalised a sense of lawfulness as the Anglo-Saxon parts, I've noticed - I'm mostly Celtic in culture myself, ergo I'm sometimes surprised just how law-abiding the English naturally are. [/QUOTE]

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