Re: Willy Wonka's Alignment?

"Hong Ooi" <hong@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 27 May 2004 12:56:03 +0100, "JB" <JB70@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> >
> >"SMT" <gn5s-thrn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> >news:40b5b90b$0$1006$44c9b20d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>
> >> "Robert Singers" <rsingers@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> >> news:Xns94F69C89C8C2rsingers@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> > Brandon Cope startled all and sundry by ejaculating the following
> >words
> >
> >> > > You'll just have to change his personality until it cleanly
fits
> >one
> >> > > of your nine options you have.
> >> >
> >> > Or he\you could just understand the alignment system and not make
> >> incorrect
> >> > assumptions.
> >>
> >>
> >> See the thing is when I look at the alignments as written in the
books
> >(2E
> >> and 3E) I actually quite like the ideas in theory.
> >> Yet when I try to apply alignments to any real or fictional person
I
> >find
> >> they rarely fit, and they seldom work much better when applied to
well
> >> developed D&D characters who actually have a deep and well thought
out
> >> personality.
> >
> >If you find that it's because you aren't using them properly.
> >
>
> Of course, the same could be said of communism.

Sure, if a thousand other countries adopted communism without any
problems then your country's inability to use it would indicate
incorrect usage.