• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    The difficult question is if a chaotic evil character would follow a law that is in their self interest.

    I don’t think they would. I think they’d break the law anyway, even if it went against their own interests, because their nature is pure lawlessness.

    Chaos, to me, implies an inherent lawlessness that is itself the character’s goal. They break the law for its own sake, because they want laws to be broken (i.e. for the lulz)

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      1 year ago

      That’s an interesting point of view. I’ve never really seen it that way, but I can appreciate that. I see it more as a complete disregard for the law, rather than actively trying to break laws. It’d be pretty silly if a chaotic evil character, on hearing that feeding the homeless is illegal, would go around sharing his rations with homeless people “for the lulz”.

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        1 year ago

        Neutral, to me, is a complete disregard for the law. Chaos is actually being anti-law

        A chaotic evil character would feed the homeless, but also it would be poisoned or something. For the lulz