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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Paladins and alignments
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Date: Mon, 20-May-85 22:03:25 EDT
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In article <245@ucbcad.UUCP> faustus@ucbcad.UUCP (Wayne A. Christopher)
writes:
>... using politicians as examples of alignments is a useful tool in frp.
>	This is pretty tough... Can anybody fill in the blanks? This just
>shows how unrealistic alignments are...
>
>	Wayne

I dont know enough about politics, so I tried to use literary figures.
My picks are next to yours:

Lawful Good:	  Metternich	Plato, Don Quixote
Lawful Neutral:	  Napoleon      Machiavelli, all bureaucrats
Lawful Evil:	  Hitler        Hitler, Stalin
Neutral Good:	  ?		Robin Hood
Absolute Neutral: ?		got me, i lost on this one
Neutral Evil:	  Nixon		Puck from "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Chaotic Good:	  Jefferson	got me again
Chaotic Neutral:  ?		Lazarus Long (RAH, _Methusalah's Children_)
Chaotic Evil:	  Khadaffy	Baron Harkonnen, Snow White's Stepmother

I found that the various 'mythic figures' that many people were familiar
with worked better than others. The only potentially obscure one is
Lazarus Long, and most everyone into sf (a good overlap with those into
frp, fantasy) has read at least some Heinlein, so pointing them to that
isnt that difficult. 

any comments?