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<blockquote data-quote="Azazyll" data-source="post: 1629988" data-attributes="member: 4367">I would like to say Lawful Neutral, and in the game, I go for that, but that's playing a character and working in the game mechanic, the way things work in a fairy tale land where you can seperate the good from the bad with a paltry first level spell (praise to Monte Cooke and Ravenloft for getting rid of that).&nbsp; But when I see people suffer, when I see poverty and crime and murder and the horrible things that people do to each other, and far worse the apathy that allows horrible things to happen to others, I feel a righteous indignation that in my vanity I imagine is something like the feeling an archon gets when it sees a pit fiend.&nbsp; I'm not sure how I feel about evil.&nbsp; Frankly, I think that there are very few evil people out there.&nbsp; True evil, in my opinion, means you know something is evil and you do it for the sake of evil, cruelty for the sake of cruelty.&nbsp; You have to enjoy it, have to be sick and twisted enough to enjoy the darker emotions like hatred, jealousy, envy, pride and selfishness.&nbsp; And that can happen to anyone, but a good person fights it while an evil person revels in it.&nbsp; That's someone who's evil in alingment.&nbsp; To me, neutrality is far worse.&nbsp; Allowing evil to happen, knowing what it is and permitting such a thing to continue, is more galling to me than the evil itself.&nbsp; So perhaps evil is broader than my stricter feelings would suggest.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Azazyll, post: 1629988, member: 4367"] I would like to say Lawful Neutral, and in the game, I go for that, but that's playing a character and working in the game mechanic, the way things work in a fairy tale land where you can seperate the good from the bad with a paltry first level spell (praise to Monte Cooke and Ravenloft for getting rid of that). But when I see people suffer, when I see poverty and crime and murder and the horrible things that people do to each other, and far worse the apathy that allows horrible things to happen to others, I feel a righteous indignation that in my vanity I imagine is something like the feeling an archon gets when it sees a pit fiend. I'm not sure how I feel about evil. Frankly, I think that there are very few evil people out there. True evil, in my opinion, means you know something is evil and you do it for the sake of evil, cruelty for the sake of cruelty. You have to enjoy it, have to be sick and twisted enough to enjoy the darker emotions like hatred, jealousy, envy, pride and selfishness. And that can happen to anyone, but a good person fights it while an evil person revels in it. That's someone who's evil in alingment. To me, neutrality is far worse. Allowing evil to happen, knowing what it is and permitting such a thing to continue, is more galling to me than the evil itself. So perhaps evil is broader than my stricter feelings would suggest. [/QUOTE]

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