Which would be Chaotic —Good Neutral or Evil based on whether you’re more interested in yourself, in everyone or in other people’s welfare. From your other posts, I think that you’re probably Chaotic Neutral- a fan of freedom for all, for everyone to do their thing, be that for good, evil or neither. You have a moral compass which guides you, but you’re not concerned with making others follow it. You’re not out to hurt anyone, but if they try to change you or limit your freedom, you’ll punch 'em in the nose and not feel guilty that they’re hurt by it.
“Chaotic” doesn’t mean no morals or “laws” that you live by - but it means that they’re not those codified and shared by the culture at large.
Neutral to Neutral Good. I’m not changeable enough to be Chaotic anything, and I’m not self-centered enough for Evil anything, but I don’t believe in law or tradition much and tend to look at both sides of issues.
Yeah, how the heck? That would mean you follow the law regardless of whether it is right or wrong. I’d have had you pegged as chaotic good by your posts on here.
BTW, I’m pretty sure I’m neutral good with chaotic tendencies. The big chaotic thing is thinking that good people sometimes need to fight back.
Oh, and I agree that selfishness is not in and of itself evil: that should be neutral. Selfishness at the expense of others is evil.
I couldn’t manage the quiz either - it seemed to assume that you had a place in an extended family, and you couldn’t just walk out and leave it behind. There isn’t any ‘family elder’ I’ve been remotely answerable to since I moved out of my father’s house for the last time at age 23.
I’m Lawful Good. I actually think this is an interesting exercise because it helps to understand our own motivations and others. Unfortunately, I think it’s difficult to identify one’s alignment directly in some cases, particulary in a case like mine where I have a strong set of rules and desire for order, as one would expect with a lawful alignment, but often run into conflict with authority. Instead, I think it’s sometimes easiest to identify an alignment by the greatest struggle that a particular alignment encounters. In the case Lawful Good, that struggle arises in a dilemma when the “good” thing and the “lawful” thing are not the same or at least not so obviously the same . For an NG or LN alignment, their choices are obvious in such a situation, but I often take a considerable amount of time trying to decide the appropriate action.
I read the descriptions and picked Lawful Neutral, then did the test and was told that I was in fact Lawful Neutral
What can I say? I like rules and order, as long as the rules aren’t coming from a strong morality (which funnily enough the wiki entry addressed by saying LNs put their own moral beliefs second to the desire to live within an orderly system, and that they probably have a well-structured sense of ethics, which I agree describes me perfectly).
I would say that I am guided by my conscience and sense of morals to be good, but that I have little respect for laws or authority. I’m more than happy to speak against someone who is wrong even if they are in a position of leadership. I thought this was pretty much the definition of chaotic good, but it matches better with the description of neutral good as given in the OP:
The test says Lawful Neutral, which seems reasonable to me. I answered “Lawful Good” on the survey, but I’d say I definitely fall somewhere between Good/Neutral on that axis. I’m a lawyer who entered the profession because I wanted to serve the commonweal and found the traditions of Law attractive, but I’ve grown more cynical in practice. That’s basically Lawful Good verging towards Neutral in a nutshell.
Chaotic Neutral, both in RL and when I used to do RPGs (though sometimes I’d do chaotic evil, if I had a DM that would keep alignment secret…I loved being the psycho killer in the group and no one would know as I offed members of the party :p)
RESURRECTED, rather than duplicated. An action to minimize the incidence of duplicate threads is arguably a lawful act, but it’s an old enough thread that I can assert an element of chaos.
Neutral Good
Former Lawful Good. Moved toward Neutral after I had kids and realized laws tend to codify behavior, thereby reducing the need for free-though and judgment. Ultimately justice suffers as the price of upholding the law. Now my kids are grown, I have come to see laws primarily as a tools of the wealthy used for controlling the proletariat. I am moving very close to “chaotic” in this regard now, but I still believe some system needs to be in place to address the objectively disruptive & destructive elements of our population. I think the system we have sucks, but I think it should be replaced by something better rather than abandoned altogether. Of course, that has only to do with formal, codified governmental law. As for unwritten social law, I am more centrist. I don’t cheat, but otherwise I don’t see a lot of benefit in traditions and I don’t think (much) less anyone who does.
So, I’m solid Good 90-95%–the needs of the many and all that. Maybe about 75% Chaotic, but not committed to full-on libertarianism.
