Quote Originally Posted by gkathellar View Post
Take two hypothetical magistrates, one LG, and one LN, both of whom are empathetic, dutiful, and very lawful in every sense of the word. Both are tasked with sentencing a petty criminal who is just trying to feed his family. The LN magistrate sympathizes, but is not unusually lenient because of a belief that the social order has an intrinsic value. The LG magistrate sympathizes, but is not unusually lenient because of a belief that the social order is important to the safety, happiness, and general wellbeing of people like the petty criminal and his family members.
Also an option: The LG magistrate sympathizes and is unusually lenient because he realizes that a system where people are forced to steal just to feed themselves and their families is broken in some way and needs fixing. It's probably that fixing part is why he's a magistrate in the first place.

Although once again that is an option, because there are different ways to be good, and none of them is the "correct" one, at least not the only correct one.