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.
I can't believe that people use the Alignment Axis as anything more than a funny game thing. It somehow means even less than the political cum-piss, which itself is like, a spoonful of real political theory mixed into gallons and gallons of urine (libertarian™ urine!)
I've heard people describe themselves as chaotic good. But to them it meant 'I'm a chill guy but if you mess with my family, I'll go beast mode.'
I mean, I think its fine as an equivalent of astrology signs, or MBTI. Which is to say, its very 'vibe' based, and I think really starts breaking down if you dig into it.
But some people seem to get really emotionally invested. Like, I remember fucking flame wars over "Is Batman Lawful Good or Chaotic Good?"
Its a silly game thing. He's been all of them at different points depending on the 'vibe' of how you want to interpret alignment and batman.