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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5610837" data-attributes="member: 4937">This is one of several possibilities, but I happen to agree with you at least in as much as that's how my campaign works (at least in some regards).  However, it's worth noting that a world in which magic is real, could just as equally be a world without fixed natural law and with capricious supernatural powers in charge of everything, and so D&D man might well have vastly less control over his environment compared to the real middle ages.   Either could be a valid interpretation depending on how the DM handled magic.You seem to be equating Good with 'individual rights'.  Once again, you are throwing out a political observation as if it was fact.  The best we can manage is to try to make some statement about the game world.In its most common interpretation, the 'Chaotic' alignments are the one which recognizes individual rights and its not clear from your statement whether you are advocating 'Chaotic Good' or 'Chaotic Neutral', and in any event we'd probably find at least one poster who will disagree with whatever bucket I threw that one in. However, what is certainly true is that 'Lawful Good' is not particularly concerned with individual rights and sees them largely as an excuse people use to partake in evil and avoid ones honorable duty.  And for that matter, only Chaotic Neutral asserts individual right as having absolute primacy (again, not clear if you are asserting that), that is, that you have the right to do something free from interferance as well as the right to choose to not do something free from interferance.  Whether or not Chaotic Neutral or Chaotic Good or any other alignment is the one which is morally correct and right for the game world or the real one is however something we can only assert as an opinion. And again, we can probably find posters who will argue for and against that particular assertion.  For example, we could probably find posters who would argue that since this world contains angels and demons, and since this world is one in which knowledge of good and evil has been bestowed on man by revelation from an external source, that we should not on those accounts expect the fantasy world to be notably different from this one.  However, the debate over whether or not this world actually does or doesn't have supernatural elements is not one we can really pursue here.</blockquote>

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