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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darth Shoju" data-source="post: 996152" data-attributes="member: 11397">I think the problem is that the D&D alignment system is an antiquated notion from simpler times, that tends to redline easily when applied to any kind of complex ethical situation. It's been a while since I watched All in the Family, but I think Archie was essentially a good guy. Yes, he was a biggot in many respects, but I think the character was designed to make us think about our own prejudices and realized how shallow they really are. I think this was evidenced by the fact that Archie always talked big and called his son-in-law meathead and such, but he loved him all the same. I believe what they were implying is that Archie was a biggot in an abstract sense, in that he didn't truly believe his own biggotry. I'm thinking he just followed his own stereotypical ideals without really applying them to actual people. From what I remember, when he actually did have to apply those ideals to real people, when the situation got serious he did the right thing. And I think that is how they were trying to tell us how ridiculous biggotry is. Of course, I don't think I've watched the show in like 18 years, so I could be wrong <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> .If you want to ram Archie into the D&D alignment pigeon-hole, I'd call him neutral good, or possibly chaotic good. I'd say NG before CG as he generally seemed to be too ambivilant to do anything really chaotic.</blockquote>

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