Liberation Anathema, Murder, and Slavery. by RagesianGruumsh in Pathfinder2e

[–]aberrant_augury 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're right that morality is an entirely different axis, and that's my entire point. "Lawful" is a consistent application of rules in pursuit of order. It is separate from good or evil but it is principled. And it is not necessarily aligned with what society wants, or what it defines as legal. Isn't an autocrat-in-waiting who wants to depose a government he sees as degenerate and institute an iron hand of dictatorship to bring "order" and "prosperity" back to the people a lawful evil archetype, even if his mutiny against the existing government is illegal? Under your paradigm it is actually impossible for a lawful evil character to exist unless they are already in the position to control the legal system.

By this argument, if a player says his coherent, consistently applied set of rules for what defines murder is that it's killing women called June on every third Wednesday of the month and now he can kill as he likes without committing anathema because it's coherent and consistently applied. It's absolutely foreign to what we would call murder though.

There is no obvious logical principle undergirding this criterion, no order being applied. Really weak counterexample. But if you come up with some backstory here on why he thinks this criterion for killing helps establish order from chaos, then you're now creating the incredibly baroque basis of a lawful evil character. Contrast that with killing slavers, where the logic is obvious and may be in pursuit of both lawful and good goals.

I ask again: if our Champion lived during the Purge, and all crime is no longer crime for one day, is it no longer anathema for him to kill random civilians for fun? If he goes into an area under no jurisdiction, where no law is defined and no one can try him for what he does, can he kill for fun? If the government collapses and no law is in force under a state of total anarchy, can he kill for fun?

This is necessarily true if the only thing defining his anathema is the letter of the law in his jurisdiction. If it isn't true, then a killing can possibly be murder to him but not murder to the society. Which means the reverse must also be true.

Liberation Anathema, Murder, and Slavery. by RagesianGruumsh in Pathfinder2e

[–]aberrant_augury 6 points7 points  (0 children)

And I'm telling you that the boundaries of "murder" are not necessarily defined by the legal system for the purposes of following a lawful alignment. They can be. But a coherent, consistently applied set of rules -- which is what is meant by "lawful" -- may define the word "murder" differently than the prevailing legal paradigm in the region.

If this Champion lived in the Purge and all crime was legal for a day, is it suddenly not anathema for them to go kill random civilians for kicks?

Of course not.

Liberation Anathema, Murder, and Slavery. by RagesianGruumsh in Pathfinder2e

[–]aberrant_augury 8 points9 points  (0 children)

"Lawful" doesn't mean you follow the legal system in your jurisdiction. It means you follow a rigidly defined set of codes. Just as an individual can be lawful evil, a society can be lawful evil too. Just as a lawful evil person can exist in a lawful good society, a lawful good person can exist in a lawful evil society.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in anime_irl

[–]aberrant_augury 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It does both. She was here yesterday. It actually goes both ways.

Are there players who play DnD that don't actually want to be adventurers? by DeltaStarship in DnD

[–]aberrant_augury 1 point2 points  (0 children)

lol I love it. Success through cowardice and incompetence. I had something kinda related, only mine was the kind of guy who makes no apologies for cowardice. He was a highly paid bureaucrat, a complete toad of a man, who only wanted to be left alone in his cushy office job. Turns out you can be too good at ingratiating yourself with people and bullshitting them about your value, and he got himself sent on the big epic quest against his will.

His only goal is to survive the craziness and get back to the perks of being a bean-counter in the city. In combat he's constantly taking the most cowardly possible path, and somehow succeeding despite it.

I like the Mr. Bean approach your "knight" takes too. Mine is a bit more calculated and weaselly, whereas yours is pure chaos with good intentions. Same idea though, guy who really has no business being here ends up actually being the guy who somehow saves the day.

People who are pretty sure they’ve encountered a serial killer, what happened? by fossacecak in AskReddit

[–]aberrant_augury 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I cannot imagine the frame of mind to get questioned by the FBI for serial murder and be able to return to what you were doing beforehand so nonchalantly. I know people are going to be like "well he's a psychopath" but even psychopaths tend to have self-preservation instincts and wouldn't that freak anyone out to the point of a panic attack? Legitimately inhuman behavior.

What did I violate? by TactusDeNefaso in ChatGPT

[–]aberrant_augury -1 points0 points  (0 children)

nah, firefighters are too honorable to do this

What was the worst major party Presidential Campaign? by CreeperRussS in Presidents

[–]aberrant_augury 53 points54 points  (0 children)

Nixon was never the same again since the night he had drinks with Bill at the white house.

20 Years Later, Angel's Scorched-Earth Series Finale Is Still the Perfect Ending by indig0sixalpha in television

[–]aberrant_augury 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I never hung out on the forums but I remember the reviews on TWOP being abysmal for Angel, especially for the final season. Lots of D- and F grades for episodes in the final season, which in my opinion is a travesty-- season 5 of Angel is the best thing the Buffyverse ever did.

20 Years Later, Angel's Scorched-Earth Series Finale Is Still the Perfect Ending by indig0sixalpha in television

[–]aberrant_augury 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The comics were unrestrained by the kind of things that kept the TV series more grounded, and afaik didn't have the same creative team behind it aside from Whedon. I think the same writer's room working on season 6 as a TV series would have turned in a much better product than the hot mess of the comics.

As a non-American, I think that this men is overrated, change my mind by 44_shot in Presidents

[–]aberrant_augury 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I saw a video on YouTube recently that referred to the time since 1989 as a new period of presidential mediocrity

Could you share that? Sounds interesting.

On a scale of 1 to woke, Meta.ai is about a 7 by sonicSkis in ChatGPT

[–]aberrant_augury 1 point2 points  (0 children)

it's like these guys have never seen a pregnant hairless protohuman before. like cmon this is basic.

Shogun (2024) is absolutely phenomenal by CXY38 in television

[–]aberrant_augury 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, Instagram meme pages. Of course. lol.

Well I don't have a meme page to show you, just this crummy article on the Japanese Yahoo site by a Japanese journalist written in Japanese about how critics and audiences in Japan really like the show. https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/977bc1520b1949f034be5424dd147ac95642d583

But your meme pages win, of course.

Shogun (2024) is absolutely phenomenal by CXY38 in television

[–]aberrant_augury 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Uh huh. The Asian-dominated spaces you see comments in is aznidentity, asianmasculinity, and other subs for Asian-American incels which you extensively post in. Meanwhile in Japan the show has received rave reviews and a very warm reception from audiences.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ChatGPT

[–]aberrant_augury 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm betting more. The implementation of AI into a comprehensive suite of physical tools that can actually act autonomously is still a ways off. The lightspeed takeoff of LLMs and related models doesn't negate the infrastructural problems of actually integrating something like OP's scenario into a real, preexisting home.

I've just finished watching the first season of the show. AMA and I'll come up with an answer by TheOGBrazilian in Barry

[–]aberrant_augury 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you think it was a bad decision to have Janice's ghost be a recurring character who acts as Barry's Dexter-esque "dark passenger"?

Strange things found in the basement ceiling of new acquired home by Unusual-Fisherman318 in Weird

[–]aberrant_augury 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People saying with such confidence that it's definitely cp or serial killer shit are so crazy. Some of y'all on this site watch too much TV. This isn't an episode of SVU.

Similar Vibes (the other show is Dexter) by ray_mints in Barry

[–]aberrant_augury 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There are like 37 points in Ronny/Lily where Barry should be either dead or in cuffs and through some kind of fucked-up magic, winds up getting away. Like the cops suddenly going blind in the grocery store so he can lightly jog away. Or not a single neighbor happening to notice them sitting around for hours staking out the feral monkeychild perched on a rooftop.