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0 pointsimmibis2mo ago0 comments

Here we see an example of the law-and-order personality type, where the most important thing is to follow the law.

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thefz2mo ago

That is kind of the point of a law, to be impartial. Without it we might as well go back to the stone age.

immibisOP2mo ago

Sometimes laws are bad - but people in Kohlberg stage 4 don't think so.

There are many obvious historical counterexamples to laws being neutral, or good.

thefz2mo ago

I am simply not for vigilante justice

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."

Yeah and DnD has lawful evil as an alignment for a reason!

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thefz2mo ago

That is kind of the point of a law, to be impartial. Without it we might as well go back to the stone age.

immibisOP2mo ago

Sometimes laws are bad - but people in Kohlberg stage 4 don't think so.

There are many obvious historical counterexamples to laws being neutral, or good.

thefz2mo ago

I am simply not for vigilante justice

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."

Yeah and DnD has lawful evil as an alignment for a reason!

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