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Originally Posted by silverwolfer
Ill be honest, I don't see why your are hurting yourself to be NG, your job is not to be lawful or liberatic, your job is just to do good, if someone is enslaved, then you free them, if someone is being chaotic and killing random folks, you knock them out, you DO the same thing as a CG or LG would do, just different reasons.
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Actually how they do things is exactly the difference between chaotic and lawful characters. A lawful person believes that order is paramount and would not go against the established laws of where they live, even if they disagree with it. That doesn't prevent them from (ab)using every loophole, ambiguity, or contradiction in those laws to further their own ideals. Nor would it prevent them from trying to change said laws from within the systems structure.
The issue isn't with lawfulness itself, but with people being unimaginative about it when it comes to good aligned characters. Lawful evil PC are always seen as cunning and manipulative for the sake of evil, but for some reason we don't allow Pallies to be that way for the sake of good, even though it would allow for some great rp opportunities. In other words, a paladin is not obligated to follow the spirit of the law, if the spirit is based on an evil foundation.
So no. I don't think a LG character would kick down the door of a slavers den in a society where slavery is legal. S/he'd arrive there with a search warrant, request excessively detailed paperwork, documentation, and proof for every slave in there as well as anything else that s/he could come up with to catch any irregularity. If the respective slavers
fail to provide all necessary forms filed out in minute detail, and
refuse to subject themselves to the consequences,
then s/he can commence with the butt-kicking.
Oh... and in the case that the slaver den really has every paperwork in order... Well, there are always those pesky CG teammates who would have no qualms about manipulating evidence beforehand.