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Lopen posted...

My big hangup is I don't feel like Thanos's plan doesn't really makes sense to come from the mind of a lawful person. From a neutral mind makes sense as you could buy that as a path of least resistance. From a chaotic mind it could actually make sense too if the idea of randomness is inherent to the plan being the ideal on enforcing it-- that's why I initially said I could even see an argument for Chaotic Neutral more than lawful.

While it is an ideal that could technically be lawful if you're thinking it absolutely has to be done that way and you're forcing that on the populace, if nothing else I feel like a lawful mind would be more calculated in how they make the distinction in their mass genocide rather than just randomly doing it. This feels more like a process generated by the conclusion of a mind who doesn't care how, just wants half of the things removed ASAP.

I probably wont be able to phrase this in a way that doesn't sound stupid, but I don't view the random killing as chaotic. On such a big scale, it's just a statistic. I cannot think of anything more neutral than reliable randomness (except doing literally nothing), which is why you're able to make the argument for it across the entire lawful-chaotic axis. The scientific method isn't any more chaotic for utilizing controlled randomness as a useful tool.

I think of the dystopian fascist society trope where people are killed by lottery as population control. Is that not a "lawful" thing for a fictional society to do? It's still extremely structured but in a way that doesn't care for the specifics of the end result. I dont think it's out of the question.
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DPOblivion was far more determined than me.