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Which is why I’m struggling so much with this, I guess. Lawful bad is relatively easy. I mean, good and bad are as much a “feel” as anything else. And it’s easy to “feel” that something is “wrong” (it *can* feel less wrong, if you also understand any mitigating circumstances – such as “breaking a finger is wrong” but accompanied with “but if I didn’t, he’d have lost a hand” makes it “less bad” not “more good”).

Lawful/unlawful is also quite easy – the law is a (relatively) hard and fast set of rules so you’re either complying or not (though lawyers may prove this to be a fallicy too!). Whether or not the law is “good” or “evil” is irrelevant – if you follow the law, you’re lawful. If you break the law, you’re unlawful.

A feeling for something “good” is more difficult – because any ambiguity becomes more like an excuse for “not-so-bad” behaviour. Your last comment made things a little clearer though (and at the same time, reinforced my view that other people’s examples – such as the jaywalking – are indicative of alignments either being mis-understood or mis-applied, which is what made the whole topic so confusing all those years ago).