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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6734694" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>But Neutral Good types would validate this assessment.&nbsp; NG would imagine alignment as a circle (or even a diamond) with the highest place occupied by perfect Goodness not adulterated by law or chaos, and with perfect Evil not adulterated by law or chaos at the bottom.&nbsp; That lowest place is by definition the &quot;most evil&quot; and purest evil.&nbsp; To adulterate pure evil with law or chaos inherently makes it slightly less evil, moving evil toward the service of good goals - the health of the group, the health of the individual.&nbsp; To NG, the LE or CE person desires something good - indeed desires something that the NG person would affirm - but has chosen disastrously bad and ultimately self-defeating means toward that end.&nbsp; To the CE person, the NG person would say, &quot;Of course you should desire your own health and happiness.&nbsp; But by deciding to deprive everyone around you of happiness and well-being in order to ensure your own, you are ultimately depriving yourself of the health and happiness you should have.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; To the LE person, the NG person would say, &quot;Of course you should desire the health and wellbeing of the group.&nbsp; But by deciding that the health and wellbeing of the group was best served by destroying the health and wellbeing of most of its members, you are defeating your own good purpose.&quot;&nbsp; &nbsp; But in both cases, the NG person evaluates the person as less broken than a person who desires evil for its own sake alone.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 6734694, member: 4937"] But Neutral Good types would validate this assessment. NG would imagine alignment as a circle (or even a diamond) with the highest place occupied by perfect Goodness not adulterated by law or chaos, and with perfect Evil not adulterated by law or chaos at the bottom. That lowest place is by definition the "most evil" and purest evil. To adulterate pure evil with law or chaos inherently makes it slightly less evil, moving evil toward the service of good goals - the health of the group, the health of the individual. To NG, the LE or CE person desires something good - indeed desires something that the NG person would affirm - but has chosen disastrously bad and ultimately self-defeating means toward that end. To the CE person, the NG person would say, "Of course you should desire your own health and happiness. But by deciding to deprive everyone around you of happiness and well-being in order to ensure your own, you are ultimately depriving yourself of the health and happiness you should have." To the LE person, the NG person would say, "Of course you should desire the health and wellbeing of the group. But by deciding that the health and wellbeing of the group was best served by destroying the health and wellbeing of most of its members, you are defeating your own good purpose." But in both cases, the NG person evaluates the person as less broken than a person who desires evil for its own sake alone. [/QUOTE]

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