What's Your Alignment?

Definitely neutral good.

Is your alignment something you can choose for yourself, or does society set it for you?

In one state, I am Lawful, in another I am not (and I choose not to change my Habits to suit the new Law)

Does that make me Neutral? Chaotic?


Some might call be Chaotic Good or Chaotic Neutral, some may call my Neutral Evil, others again would say I'm Lawful Neutral - depending on where they fall on *my* internal scale, and how I've interacted with them.

Few people ever see themselves as the "bad guy"

Lawful Good is often referred to as Lawful Stupid.

Adhering to whatever sense of "Right" gets them through the day and the written law that they end up missing the point of the Laws or the Good intent.

"Honor" and "Compassion" don't always mesh easily with "Law"




I'm not sure if current roleplaying games/D&D still use this system? (I have not played for a decade, so I'm more than a few years behind the trends)

A lot of games were tending to a more sliding-scale of "Reputation" and "Karma", based on your acts.

If you save the town (and everyone knows about it) - Good Reputation.
If you save a puppy (no one sees it)- Good Karma.

Steal a wallet (no one catches you) - Bad Karma.
Steal a wallet (get caught) - Bad reputation.


So if you stole a wallet (not caught) and hand it in for the Kudos - Good Reputation, Bad Karma.

*shrug*

Whether or not your lack of virtue rots and eats away at you from the inside - well, Most people here would say "Better to be good and no one know about it, than bad and people think you're good" or words to that effect.

Other philosophies differ.


I don't identify particularly strongly with any of the "given" examples, so I'll keep mum on my alignment in this context

Chaotic good. An socialist Irish nationalistic Revolutionary.

Chaotic good

Said the man who wants Jedi-run aristocracy for the world, and to form a council at TOTJO.


----I'm not saying they are bad ideas, I'm throwing it out there for your self-assessment/definiton of the word Chaotic consideration

I'm chaotic/neutral good.

I'd like to think I am neutral good, but honestly I am probably lawful good.

There was a scientific study done in the past sometime that i read about that suggested that people played certain roles in society, and the closest for me was something like 'enforcer'...

Not surprisingly, there is a lot of good in the Jedi community.

Seems to be a lot of Neutral Good...do you think that's the ideal that a Jedi should strive for?

Leah Starspectre wrote: Not surprisingly, there is a lot of good in the Jedi community.

Seems to be a lot of Neutral Good...do you think that's the ideal that a Jedi should strive for?

As one who is not aligned that way, No I don't think that is something a Jedi should strive for. Instead each one of us need to decide for ourselves what our path is and how to best walk that path. Jedi are no more cookie cutters than any other member of our race and so I see no need to strive for a specific alignment among our ilk.

Categories such as the ones in the OP are difficult because we react differently in different situations.

While I think I'm probably lawful good most of the time, there are certain situations in which I'd have no hesitation about breaking the law... and the knights of the forum know that I have a tendency to argue against anything I think isn't good enough or fair enough in hierarchical systems...

You only have to look at people like Edward Snowden, to see that good and bad come in different packages and that what one person sees as good action, to another is the complete opposite.

As one who is not aligned that way, No I don't think that is something a Jedi should strive for. Instead each one of us need to decide for ourselves what our path is and how to best walk that path. Jedi are no more cookie cutters than any other member of our race and so I see no need to strive for a specific alignment among our ilk.

If Good is "For Others"
and Evil is "For Self"

I would argue that Jedi should strive for the former.

On the Law/Chaos scale - I suppose a tendency towards neutrality (as defined in the OP) is probably the Current preference, given that current, enforced Laws are all over the shop, really - but in the idealised world of the TotJO Doctrine-

In a society governed by laws grounded in reason and compassion, not in fear or prejudice.

I suppose Jedi would aim for Lawful as well.


Historically (anecdotally) "Chaotic Neutral" is the choice for players who want to do what they want, but don't want to be affected by spells and effects that get a bonus vs Evil. :whistle: