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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jhaelen" data-source="post: 6152617" data-attributes="member: 46713">Well, considering this aspect, you're dead wrong. Alignments _are_ meaningless. At least they're meaningless as a useful indicator of a real person's personality traits, motivation, or set of beliefs. It doesn't even work properly for stereotypical fictional characters from comics, novels, or movies, and it fails utterly when you try to apply it to real persons. There's a reason why alignment discussions in forums always get out of hand and people cannot come to a consensus.Even your example fails: I'm very much for legalizing Marijuana and totally against people being allowed to own guns. So what am I? Lawful or chaotic? The correct answer is: I'm both and neither. And that's true for every real person. Personalities are too complex and sometimes conflicting to be shoehorned into such simple categories. Even people you know very well and intimately will often surprise you with their actions. You can never safely predict how another person will act, because you cannot read their mind and you are not them.</blockquote>