Celebrim
Legend
Being a three-dimensional human being isn't an alignment...
Nor is it the antithesis of one. And to a large extent, I think something like alignment - whatever you wish to call it or think the best name for it is - is what makes a person 'deep' as opposed to shallow. Shallow is what we call people who lack that characteristic. It is the character in a character. It is the sometimes hidden depth of a person. I don't pretend that humans exactly map to 9 alignments or that there are only two axis much less only these two axis. But I do think that its as meaningful (or meaningless) as Myers-Brigg tests or Keirsey temperment sorters, and trying to measure something more interesting.
Which is to say that I think that fantasy games need to have something of the sort, and D&D alignment is as good as any I can think of.
But to the extent that someone would grant some validity to a Myers-Briggs indicator, no one would need claim that it meant that there were only 16 personalities on the whole planet or that because we could sort people such that anyone we so sorted was two-dimensional. The same sort of things are true of alignment.
so I'm not sure how you'd tell your DM is such.
No, you aren't.
Unless you're seriously trying to bring forth the idea that you can tell what morals a person has judged on how if they use a silly black and white team system in their magical imaginary elf game.
I didn't say that. I merely said that I could tell from their temperment what sort of alignment that would be likely to gravitate to in play. I have very clearly tried to divorse my discussion of it from judging someone's morality on that basis, and I've even gone so far as to suggest that even if we could clearly from the system label someone's morality it wouldn't necessarily mean we'd confirmed or denied their moral worth to any degree. In other words, if we are serious about the matter, we do have to entertain the idea that black is white and white is black (as it were).
If I had made the claim that I could tell after I'd got to know a person what sort of temperment that they'd self select when taking a Myers-Brigg personality test, that would hardly be worthy of (or likely to prompt) your derision - even if you personally did not take much stock in the value of such things. This claim is in my opinion no more extraordinary or unusual than that. I'm not saying that it gives me in especial insight into what we might call someone's 'real' alignment. I don't know that at all, because real tests of a person's true moral worth are rare and hard to come by. I just know that its possible to predict the alignment a person will tend to self-select, and that I find that interesting and at times humorous.