Originally Posted by
TheOOB
According the the American Heritage Thesaurus, Order is an Antonym of Chaos and a Synonym for Law, ergo the two are opposites to a point.
Alignment isn't that tough to deal with in general, as for everyone save paladins(and I'll admit the 3e paladin code is silly), it's irrelevant to know if a specific action is good or evil(or lawful or chaotic). The trick with alignment is to remember it's an objective force in the D&D universe, it's not subjective at all, as evidenced by the fact that you can't argue with a Holy Smite spell.