Vulpes Zerda
I stand for neutrality.
I will consume not only your flesh, but your very soul.
I'm Only Sleeping
Both. Neither cannot exist without the other - Opposition is true friendship.
"Wait, it's IV. Of course they are. They'd make IV for Dreamcast." - Enlong, on yet another FFIV remake
Neither. Everything can be annihilated.
An excess of either leads to Bad Things. Balance is key.
That said, I naturally lean more towards Order.
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they will never sit in.
Oh My
Either or depending on my mood and the situation, but I mostly seem to lean towards chaos. What sort of Trickster would I be if I didn't?
If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah
(they/them)
Order and chaos are emergent phenomena. Neither is philosophically significant to me. That said, as a purely subjective preference, I prefer a mix of order and chaos in my life, probably tending a little toward order.
Dog and Pony Show
Order!
“Love is the eternal law whereby the universe was created and is ruled.” — St. Bernard
Remarkably Unremarkable
Eh, a little of both. Without order, things are a complete clusterfuck of a mess. Too much order, things become boring and oppressive.
As with anything, extremes are both bad. A happy medium is best.
Last Boy on Earth
Balance .
All of time and space, anywhere and everywhere, any star that ever was. Where do you want to start?
Proud Canadian
Neither.
If you don't like a single Frank Ocean song, you have no soul.
Chaotic Good order.
Basically, order is necessary only as much as it is needed to protect freedom. For one to be free to live, another has to be forbidden from murder.
But life f nothing but order is not worth living. And pure chaos does not exist.
If we disagree, that much, at least, we have in common
Fuzzy Orange Doomsayer
I don't get chaos. I do tend to sympathize with non-lawful characters more than lawful ones, though (and I often sympathize with characters who stick to a few important laws over characters who let themselves get hog-tied by dozens of laws.)
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That's Feo . . . He's a disgusting, mysoginistic, paedophilic asshat who moonlights as a shitty writer—Something Awful
Can I KCK it?
I'll take one order of chaos, please!
There's no justice in the world and there never was~
Killing is my business
Though a little bit of Order is good once in a while, I much prefer Chaos. I hate having my freedom restrained.
"I'll show you fear, there is no hell, only darkness." My twitter
Was?
Are we talking real world chaos, as in shit is breaking down and things are a mess or D&D chaos, which is basically I'll do what I want?
Decemberist
Well, you can say that it's D&D chaos.
Anyway, to be honest, I agree with Feo. I often find myself symapthizing with Type I Lawful Evil villains over Chaotic Good heroes, which I consider nothing but a nuisance. A ridiculously idealistic, idiotic, foolish nuisance with no possible knowledge of the consequences of their actions, which would probably be better off executed and left on a square to show people an example of how not to behave.
The sin of silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
I'm Only Sleeping
I have a soft spot for Magnificent Bastards over totally dumb heroes.
"Wait, it's IV. Of course they are. They'd make IV for Dreamcast." - Enlong, on yet another FFIV remake
It doesn't matter. They're all just definitions or even illusions that aren't objectively true. They're not even opposites, they're part of the same thing. Human things like law and freedom aren't even a part of it, unlike what D&D seems to imply.
Ordered Chaos
Anwalt der Verdammten
Order and chaos are merely two sides of the same coin, really.
The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that the total entropy, a sort of measure of chaos, is continually increasing. And yet the end result of it would be a uniform distribution of subatomic particles; perfect order.
Then there's something called Chaos Theory which goes into the nature of this stuff, and is something I'm not even going to pretend to understand.
Prettiest Pony :3
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!
Devypu's~ Big Pony :3
Everybody knows about the Order Versus Chaos dilemma. Where do your beliefs stand? Why?
Personally, I prefer order, simply because I enjoy more organization in my life, distrust humanity too much to let chaos and anarchy happen, and highly value the concepts of justice and duty. On the other hand, I have a high respect for balance and status quo, and a lot of chaotic traits (am a fierce individualist, highly value freedom of thought and expression, and go by the consequentalist
(with a lot of personal modifications) ethical system, but would still consider myself orderly, or at least neutral. An unconventional Lawful Neutral would probably be the best fit.
The sin of silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.