Alignment

[mythteller]

Anyone who has played some kind of Table Top game is familiar with the term Alignment. For those of you who have not thrown a 20-sided die in their lives, Alignment describes your personality and moral judgemnent in a general way. You are then given some freedom in how your alignment is expressed when you role-play.

With the myriad of RPGs out there, there are more than a few variations on Alignment, but the basic ones are as follows:

Lawful Good/Neutral Good/Chaotic Good
Lawful Neutral/True Neutral/Chaotic Neutral
Lawful Evil/Neutral Evil/Chaotic Evil

You can read more about what each one means by visiting this Wikipedia Entry on Alignment.

sarahcarotte and I were discussing the alignment of various super-heroes (geeks that we are). She felt that Batman was Lawful Good, while I felt that he was Neutral Good. My argument was that, although Batman is definitely Good, he wouldn't be above beating a suspect to a bloody pulp before getting the answers he needed. She also felt that Superman was Neutral Good, while I felt he was Lawful Good. We both agreed that Spider-Man was Lawful Good.

On the other side of the tracks, I would characterize the Joker as Chaotic Evil and Lex Luthor as Lawful Evil.

So in Memish fasion, here's my task to you: take 5 random LJ friends that you know fairly well (or think you do) and assign an alignment to them that you think represents their moral fibre. If you want, include a short description on why. You might want to mention that you've done this by leaving them a comment about it.

Also, assign an alignment to yourself. If anyone disagrees with you, post their take on your alignment in your Journal.

So here's mine (okay, so I did more than 5. I have lots of opinions!):

jdhobbes: Neutral Good

ashforestwalker: Lawful Good
baronscartop: Chaotic Neutral
bastdanica: Chaotic Good
beautifulstars: Chaotic Good
concordantnexus: True Neutral
grrscary: True Neutral
kideternity: Chaotic Good
kino_kid: Lawful Good
kittyfinn: Neutral Good
knotty_mark: Chaotic Good
moniqueg: True Neutral
mousme: Chaotic Neutral
raynedaze: Chaotic Good
rbowspryte: Neutral Good
sandman7: Lawful Good
sarahcarotte: Lawful Good
satyrdance: True Neutral
scarletcougar: Lawful Good
serendipity8791: Chaotic Good
shakura: Lawful Good
silly_imp: Chaotic Neutral
taigathyme: True Neutral
talyesin: Lawful Good
tocityguy: Neutral Good
toughlovemuse: Lawful Good
twilightbunny: NeutralGood
ulfhildr: Lawful Good
will279802: Neutral Good
yukonflower: Lawful Good
zeuberwench: Chaotic Good

Comments

[jdhobbes.livejournal.com]

What would you label yourself as then? I always thought of you trying to seek balance in all things. Maybe Neutral Good then?

[grrscary.livejournal.com]

Maybe neutral good. But I'm certainly not good enough at being neutral to be true neutral. Also, I would never work "against' good to acheive a balance, as the alignment describes. But...then again, I do -try- to be as neutral and non-judgemental as I can be. It's an imperfect system.