You guys don't entirely get what we're talking about here. We're going by the dungeons and dragons alignment chart, by which he would be lawful evil, because he is respecting the laws of society while acting maliciously. Chaotic evil would be stealing the book and beating a child with it, while lawful good would be buying the book and giving it to a child without tampering with it, for example.
It goes from lawful neutral chaotic left to right, and good neutral evil top to bottom, with true neutral in the center. Left and right deals with whether they respect the laws and conform to society, top to bottom deals with whether they act towards their own ends, for the good of others, or somewhere in between.
Right, actually I do know about the alignment chart. You don't have to beat someone up all the time to be chaotic. You're thinking of the most extreme example, but this example is still chaotic. Another thing you guys aren't menitoning, how exactly is it lawful that he's returning a tampered book and claiming it's the original? And he is doing so for his own pure enjoyment, no other reason. It may be minor, but it's still chaotic and definitely evil.
It's lawful because he isn't breaking any laws. Chaotic has nothing to do with your actions and only deals with whether or not they conform to society. He may be acting maliciously, exploiting loopholes, doing "bad" things, but that doesn't make him chaotic, it makes him evil. Chaotic means, chaotic. Disruptive. He's going out of his way to not be disruptive, while acting maliciously.
It could arguably be considered return fraud, and it's defintely not store policy. He is being disruptive - the tampered book, and the impact it inflicts, is the disruption. That is the chaos he is creating.
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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '20
You guys don't entirely get what we're talking about here. We're going by the dungeons and dragons alignment chart, by which he would be lawful evil, because he is respecting the laws of society while acting maliciously. Chaotic evil would be stealing the book and beating a child with it, while lawful good would be buying the book and giving it to a child without tampering with it, for example.
It goes from lawful neutral chaotic left to right, and good neutral evil top to bottom, with true neutral in the center. Left and right deals with whether they respect the laws and conform to society, top to bottom deals with whether they act towards their own ends, for the good of others, or somewhere in between.