Lawful Neutral: Difference between revisions

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Inspector Javert

Lawful Neutral is the alignment wherein law and order are conflated with goodness.

Whereas Lawful Good and Lawful Evil often see order as a means to an end (virtue and malevolence, respectively), Lawful Neutral sees order as an end unto itself. It says that if order is established, then things must be good.

Lawful Neutral sees Lawful Good as overly idealistic. It sees Lawful Evil as an unfortunate yet natural outgrowth of sufficiently complex systems, and possibly even as a "necessary evil."

Meta examples

Inspector Javert is the epitome of Lawful Neutral

Lawful Neutral powers

Ra, Phoenic god of the sun

Lawful Neutral mortals

Razugan

Alignment
	Law	Neutral	Chaos
Good	Lawful Good	Neutral Good	Chaotic Good
Neutral	Lawful Neutral	True Neutral	Chaotic Neutral
Evil	Lawful Evil	Neutral Evil	Chaotic Evil

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 '''Lawful Neutral''' is the [[alignment]] wherein law and order are conflated with goodness.
-Whereas Lawful Good and Lawful Evil often see order as a means to an end (virtue and malevolence, respectively), Lawful Neutral sees order as end unto itself. It says that if order is established, then things must be good.
+Whereas Lawful Good and Lawful Evil often see order as a means to an end (virtue and malevolence, respectively), Lawful Neutral sees order as an end unto itself. It says that if order is established, then things must be good.
+Lawful Neutral sees Lawful Good as overly idealistic. It sees Lawful Evil as an unfortunate yet natural outgrowth of sufficiently complex systems, and possibly even as a "necessary evil."
 == Meta examples ==