What's your alignment in real life?

[Thanee]

THE SIDEWALK IS THERE FOR A REASON!

So the cars don't drive on the grass?

Bye
Thanee

 

[hong]

Thanee is chaotic evil!

 

[jinx crossbow]

I'm Lawful Good.

I'm gonna change my mind. I'm 32-bit word-aligned, little-endian.

For me nearly the same:
LG 64-bit unsigned, big-endian.

 

[Set]

I don't have an alignment. Some days I'm filled with benevolence towards the world, donate to the soup kitchen and rinse out my recyclables. Other days I'd like 90% of the world to hurry up and kill each other off and leave the rest of us their stuff. Sometimes I'm nice, and loan thousands of bucks to friends to buy houses and cars and stuff. Sometimes I'm a selfish prick, and don't feel guilty about it at all. Sometimes I hate rules and restrictions, and think that everybody should be able to govern their own impulses and act like grown-ups and be responsible for their own choices. Other times I think that people shouldn't have half of the rights they already have, since they seem to spend the majority of their lives proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that they don't *deserve* those rights... So, I'm good. I'm evil. I'm chaotic. I'm lawful. I'm libertarian. I'm fascist.

I don't think any one world-view can possibly apply to every situation I've found myself in, or every single person I've met in my life, and the *definition of insane* is if I tried to make the entire world, and everyone in it, fit into one single perspective. I'd go nuts trying to rationalize it, so instead I just go with the flow. Some laws are bad. Some freedoms are bad. Some people are bad. Some 'good people' do evil. Some 'evil people' do good.

Ultimately, I'm not the one who gets to judge, and I'm sure the world is a better place because of that, 'cause I wouldn't grade on a curve.

For gods, I'm partial to Trithereon. Freedom, individuality, self-determination, and he's the only non-gnomish god who has pets. I like animals. Sometimes in a crunchy granola tree-hugging way. Sometimes in a 'tastes good with curry' way. Then again, I also like Torm. There are days I don't want to role-play, and playing someone who is obedient and confident, even if he's wrong, wrong, wrong, can be fun, too.

When gaming, I always choose Wee Jas and the Domains of Magic and Death. My Clerics prefer hiding behind undead minions and using a Wand of Spectral Hand to throw Cure spells without getting into the fight.

 

[Aus_Snow]

NG is always top of the list in these polls. Sometimes followed by CG (in places where players predominate, most likely) and sometimes by LG (as per here).

Good (or something) to see LN so popular again. :\ Er. Yeah.

Mind you, CN is pretty irritating too.

 

[lukelightning]

I'm Lawful Good. And anyone who disagrees with this fact should be executed.

Seriously, though, I'm probably neutral. While I believe in doing good, I'm honest enough to admit that I'm mostly interested in the welfare of myself and my family/friends. Plus I have seen enough "good" people who are total hypocrits to be cynical about "goodness."

 

[pawsplay]

Chaotic Good, I think. I believe I was once LG as a kid, trying to be good and obedient; by the time I was a teen I was a goody-2-shoes and smug about it too! But then real life sunk in and I learned very quickly that authority can not ever be trusted - absolute power corrupts absolutely and similar such wisdom. By the time I was in my 30's I realized I knew less about life than I thought in my arrogant 20s. So wisdom developed within me I think. Maybe I have that "old soul" element at my core? Who knows? Anyways I waxed NG by 25 and now, as I get more mature in life, I know am probably CG at heart.

CG = a rebel with a good heart and a free spirit. Suits me

My "dump stats" are Strength and Charisma (although I'm rather average all around ), so I'm not sure I'd make a good cleric, perhaps more a druid or shaman... Domains: Knowledge and Travel appeal to me - but I can't find a deity who supports both of these.

Maybe you're just a LG character in a LN or LE society?

 

[pawsplay]

Anyone who seriously entered "Evil" into the poll should get a hard newspaper smack across nose, with a firm "BAD KID".

Evil is NOT cool.

Evil is NOT mysterious and intriguing.

Evil is NOT funny.

That is true. However, I am perfectly willing to believe that 5% of the posters here are both evil and willing to admit to the fact. I've seen people do some terrible things. If someone is the kind of person who would extinguish an entire race of rare tropical birds in order to make a few million in the "energy drink" market, I at least appreciate their candor.

 

[Celebrim]

That is true. However, I am perfectly willing to believe that 5% of the posters here are both evil and willing to admit to the fact. I've seen people do some terrible things. If someone is the kind of person who would extinguish an entire race of rare tropical birds in order to make a few million in the "energy drink" market, I at least appreciate their candor.

I'd imagine that on the whole, we are all alot more evil than we'd like to think that we are.

Most of us are probably good on a day to day basis, at least in a passive way. But few of us are probably actively seeking out good to do. We are much more likely to be just going with the flow, and this doesn't really prove anything other than that we are nuetral and we live in a society with good tendancies (so that doing good is easier socially and consequentially than doing evil) and that we have lives of relative comfort and ease so that doing the 'right thing' is easy and doesn't cost us much compared to what we have to give. Unless we have evidence that when the chips are down and doing good is difficult and costly, or that we are the sort who actively seeks to do good for our fellow man on a regular basis, then just who are we trying to fool?

I've seen good done, and it is often a hard and costly thing. People die for it. I can only wish to be and strive to be that good. I certainly don't feel 'Good', even if I want to be.

At least the evil people here, if they are serious about it, are honest in their perfidy. Or if they are not, then they at least better than they think they are and thier is some hope for them. And I've little cause to believe that a good portion of the society isn't indeed actively evil. Maybe it is only 5% here in our mostly enlightened corner of the world, but we've all met them - verbal abusers of thier children, abandoners of thier families, casual theives, casual liars, salesmen that lie to thier customers, employees that lie to their bosses, cowards, substance abusers, abusers of women, the socially manipulative, gossipers, serial and socially destructive promiscuity, vandalizers, racists, mysogynists, haters of men, continually in a state of wrath against neighbors or even strangers they've never met, and all sorts of other evil so petty and so common that we don't normally think about it. I'm inclined to think that most of the suffering in this world comes from the petty evil, and not the maniacal or diabolic comic book villain that has a hearty laugh over exterminating a rare song bird to make a few million. Perhaps the few that self-identify themselves as evil, are identifying with the archetypal villain and thinking that it would be cool to be 'the villain', but I'm more worried about the rest of us that are petty in our evil and even oblivious to it, than the guy that styles himself Darth Vader or some such.

 

[Nifft]

Actually, the fact that anyone marked himself/herself as evil leaves me intensely curious and vaguely disturbed.
[...]
3) they believe that their selfishness makes them evil.

Introspection is a poor measuring tool. People feel guilt, inadequacy, or temptation and may think themselves more evil than good. At other times, the same people may feel pride or happiness and think themselves more good than evil.

And yeah, the poll may be taken too seriously. We should put up a disclaimer -- "This poll not a substitute for detect evil. Consult your Cleric. Do not smite!"

Cheers, -- N