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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nevin" data-source="post: 9754868" data-attributes="member: 7024481">Self correcting is a trait of self awareness and use of intelligence guided by wisdom.  Not an alignment trait.  Libertarians embrace chaos.  They think people will adjust and it will all be ok without rules.   Self correcting for your mistakes or to change how you do things to obtain goals is not a lawful act. It's an act of intelligence and wisdom to adjust to the world around you so you can succeed.   Any creature of any Alignment can do it.  This is why we keep having alignment wars because Alignment is just the belief in how Law, Chaos(freedom),evil (i can hurt people to benefit me) and good (I can't hurt people to benefit me) should be the base of laws, actions and belief structures.  It will affect decisions but won't necessarily prevent things like  fear, or , self correction, or ego and pridefullness convincing someone that the ends justify the means. (which strangely can be done as an evil person doing good to get to the evil end. Just as much as a good person doing an evil thing to achieve a good end) .  Any good person can be afraid and do the wrong thing. They'll just know it was wrong.   Any evil person can do a good thing because it achieves long term goals. Or because they are in love or just in a good mood.   I really wish DND would clearly state that Alignment is a view of how the world should run not a personality type. Because the idea of Alignment as a personality type is what gets us Lawful Stupid and Chaotic Crazy characters that never ever allow situations or actions to influence thier wierd and crazy behavior.</blockquote>

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