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V isn't chaotic good. He's chaotic neutral. He doesn't compose a functional government, he just enables revolution. He's a psychotic embodiment of anarchy in its purity: and in its purest form anarchy is an accessory, an agent, of change; and like all agents, there is a beautiful simplicity in his sheer sense of purpose, to destroy, to (to quote Alan Moore) "make a canvas of clean rubble so builders can then build a better world."Β
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Β He is, by the author's own words, a terrorist, and one out primarily for revenge. Anarchy is just a revelation of his reaching its height of grandeur in the destruction of the totalitarian regime.Β
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Taken from a writer far more skilled than me:
"It's my recollection in D&D 1.0, alignment was one of three values: lawful, neutral, chaotic. By D&D 2.0, however, Gygax and/or his henchmen had realized that this didn't really span the plane of desires with which their customer base might conceivably identify. So they added another dimension: good, neutral, evil. And you could have one of nine alignments, from lawful good to chaotic evil.
My suspicion is that it's actually not the D&D 2.0 alignment system that's a better reflection of the real world - actually, I think, the 1.0 system may be more accurate.
Suppose there's actually no such thing as "chaotic good"? Suppose that it's just that law is good, and chaos is evil?
Obviously, the one-dimensional model is a dimension-reduced subset of the two-dimensional model. If you believe the one-dimensional model is more accurate, therefore, you can only do so by believing the extra dimension of information added by the two-dimensional model is somehow meaningless, that it is noise, that its only effect is confusion.
How could the one-dimensional model be sufficient? How could there be no such thing as chaotic good or lawful evil?
Well, one possibility is that "chaotic good" just maps to evil, which maps right back to "chaos." That is, the only practical definition of evil is that evil is the same thing as chaos.
Since good is the opposite of evil, as chaos is the opposite of law, this answer also says that good is identical with law. Thus, "lawful good" and "chaotic evil" are tautological.
Under this hypothesis, the reason that there is actually evil in the world is just that evil consists entirely of the actions of those who consider themselves "chaotic good." These presumably regard their enemies as "lawful evil," when in fact they are just plain lawful - that is, good."
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Very thoughtful words.
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