It's for the page on 'Chaotic Good.' The use of freedom here made me think of the way freedom is bandied about by reactionaries. Because d&d is relevant right now, the lib energy of d&d, and the way we love to look at our world through pop culture, I immediately realized libertarians and radlibs see themselves as the chaotic good type. They get to be pro individualist capitalism and they get to pretend they could be the good one with it.
But when seen through this subtype of chaotic good, good before freedom, you see the way their understanding of 'good' is held back by wanting to protect rights.
It's just funny to me how libs who want to protect something like free speech are actively prioritizing that over the good for others. Like they actively know it's not good to let people just say something offensive, but they should just have the right anyway.
It's something that I appreciate in leftist spaces. I'd rather have a content filter or spoiler tag over slurs/fucked up images. It's not the best system, but Hexbear is one of the few places I feel safe talking and it's within a community that also excludes bigots.
I dunno. What do people think about the Character Alignment chart and its applications to morals and philosophy? Does something like that help you better conceptualize politics? Where do you think the liberalization of character alignment hurts society most?
Also, since I'm high, I'm also willing to answer questions. And I feel chatty. Will also do requests for short pieces of writing, creative writing advice, stories, opinions, or whatever.
Alignment is kinda weird when you look at it through a more materialist lens. Like if you drop me into a mideval setting, obviously I'm going to be chaotic because I'm going to be challenging norms all over the place, but if you drop me into FALGSC then I'm probably not gonna see a lot of reason to make waves. These differences become apparent if you take the official D&D alignment quiz, which assumes a fantasy context and has questions like, "Your parents have arranged a marriage for you with someone you dislike, how do you respond?" to determine whether you're lawful or chaotic. So if we can drop a character into different settings and they'll come out with different alignments, then it seems like alignment is more about describing a character's relation to the world around them.
I think alignment is ok-ish but only if it doesn't get in the way of organic and realistic development. A LG paladin might find themselves facing a tyrannical regime that they feel their code compels them to fight, and that might involve hit-and-run tactics or morally questionable acts or aligning them with more chaotic actions, and they might spend the next decade performing more chaotic acts than lawful ones, so then, are they still lawful? Maybe, maybe not, but one thing's for sure, nobody should be like, "Oh sorry, fighting against authority isn't something my character would do, they're lawful," like really, all authority?