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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7979406" data-attributes="member: 42582">I'm not sure why I would grant the second supposition. How can these two people have the same outlook in every way despite their radically different experiences of social order and its connection to human wellbeing?This example also drives home what I and one or two others posted a way upthread, that alignment is unhelpfully used to do to many things.By &quot;LG kingdom&quot; I assume you mean a kingdom with benevolent laws. By &quot;LE kingdome&quot; I assume you mean a kingdom with oppressive laws. If both those kingdoms are possible - which they must be if they both exist! - then the whole dispute between LG and CG has evaporated, because the answer to the question Is social order a source of wellbeing or a source of oppresssion simply becomes &quot;It depends&quot;.At which point 9-point alignment is doing nothing useful and all we need is personality descriptors.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 7979406, member: 42582"] I'm not sure why I would grant the second supposition. How can these two people have the same outlook in every way despite their radically different experiences of social order and its connection to human wellbeing? This example also drives home what I and one or two others posted a way upthread, that alignment is unhelpfully used to do to many things. By "LG kingdom" I assume you mean a kingdom with benevolent laws. By "LE kingdome" I assume you mean a kingdom with oppressive laws. If both those kingdoms are possible - which they must be if they both exist! - then the whole dispute between LG and CG has evaporated, because the answer to the question [I]Is social order a source of wellbeing or a source of oppresssion [/I]simply becomes "It depends". At which point 9-point alignment is doing nothing useful and all we need is personality descriptors. [/QUOTE]

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