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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Amazing Dingo" data-source="post: 1765393" data-attributes="member: 23353">I do believe that a lawful person has a strict code of personal beliefs, but so do chaotic individuals.  Whats the difference?  The chaotic person's alignment generally adheres to personal freedom at the expense of society.  The lawful person has ideas along just the opposite line: the individual's freedom must be limited slightly in order for society to survive and properly function.  Generally speaking, a lawful person adheres to the laws of the land not necessarily because he might have a personal code of contact that runs parallel to them.  Instead, he respects what law and society represent and seeks to follow those laws.  Lets look at the real world and the Speed Limit.  A chaotic person would speed for any number of reasons, not the least of which is that its perfectly safe and reasonable to to go 5-10 miles per hour over the limit.  Why should he be slowed down when he can go faster and be just as safe?  The lawful person, though perhaps able to go faster without any more danger, still refuses to because its the law. He might not agree with it (I know I don't agree with it all the time) but he follows it (I do...most of the time).  He respects the law for what it is, even if his own personal ethics might not totally agree with it.The character's personal ethics didn't agree with it but he also didn't respect the law enough to restrain from killing him and allowing society to preform justice.Edit - In reality, there is a great deal of wiggle room.  But in the nearly black-and-white that DnD tries to be with alignment, that is how I see it.</blockquote>

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