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From: lucius@tardis.UUCP (Lucius Chiaraviglio)
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Paladins and alignments
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Date: Fri, 17-May-85 00:42:40 EDT
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> > 	Sure, this isn't net.politics, but using politicians as examples of
> > alignments is a useful tool in frp.
> 
> Hmm... How about:
> 
> Lawful Good:		Metternich

Which Metternich are you talking about?  The one I read about in my Modern
Political Ideologies course would qualify for Lawful, but certainly not for
good.

> Lawful Neutral:		Napoleon

Like, you gotta be jokin', right?  Napoleon was pretty much out for his own
glory alone.  For Lawful Neutral I'd put down your typical bureaucrat (the
more tiresome and duller type).

> Lawful Evil:		Hitler

Although I'd say he was definately so much out for his own glory as to
disqualify him for Lawful.  I'd put Communist apparatchiks down for Lawful
Evil; I'd put Hitler in Neutral Evil; few who have gotten to such a high
position wanted to do so much sheer destruction.

> Neutral Good:		?

Let me see, wait, just let me think a minute here. . .uh. . .wait, it'll come
to me, uh. . .hmmmm. . .er. . .I'll think of a name in a minute. . .ummm. . .
I just forgot the one that I was ummm. . .er, . . .trying to think of. . . .

> Absolute Neutral:	?

Most politicians are probably fairly close to Neutral, like most people.

> Neutral Evil:		Nixon

See below.

> Chaotic Good:		Jefferson

Would someone who was really Chaotic Good approve of holding people in
slavery?

> Chaotic Neutral:	?

Most of the ones that don't fit in the other two vertically Neutral types.

> Chaotic Evil:		Khadaffy

I'll agree with you there; I'd also put Nixon in the same direction, just
not quite as big an alignment vector magnitude.

> 	This is pretty tough... Can anybody fill in the blanks? This just
> shows how unrealistic alignments are...
> 
> 	Wayne

Wait. . .I can fill in that blank up there. . .just give me another minute --
I'll think of it in just a little bit. . . .

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