Quote Originally Posted by druid91 View Post
Well as far as wargaming, I'm not sure about Vikings... But the japanese really had no real codified set of good and evil like the west did. They didn't have "sins."

Mostly "Good" was doing as you were told, obeisance is the rule of the day. Essentially imagine a system that is all about snubbing and undercutting rivals, as long as you do so within the bounds of propriety and rules. You payed respect to your superiors more often because usually they had the right to summarily execute (Unless you were samurai, in which case you had to execute yourself) you for not doing so than because you actually respected them.
Were those two separate thoughts? I don't see how wargaming and "good and evil" are linked with each other.

In general, though, I am a fan of the "shades of gray" mentality when it comes to alignment/motivation.