Quote Originally Posted by TheGiant
I've often said that a lot of confusion would have been avoided if they had simply called it Ordered instead of Lawful. "Ordered Good" leaves a lot less room for misinterpretation.
But that wasn't where Law and Chaos came from. (Moorcock, Poul Anderson speculative fiction). The problem began when someone with a partial understanding of philosophy implanted the two axis alignment into the game as a mechanic and role playing guide. The existential nature of the Law vs Chaos cosmic forces was lost when the decision to imbed the recognizable Good and Evil (which is all over story telling across many cultural archetypes) into it.