Legalism
Legalism – Rules determine ethics and morals whether those rules are laws, inalienable rights, or moral codes. Clearly knowing your rights, limits and responsibilities is essential for morality.
The strongest societies have clearly innumerated legal codes, rights and responsibilities. Legalists make for solid, cohesive groups and disciplined soldiers. Even vigilantes and criminals have their legalists who live by their own code or strictly enforce their expectations on their minions. Obviously, the ideal legalists are lawyers, judges, and guards.
STRENGTHS – Good for cooperation, societal strength, and cohesive systems of justice.
WEAKNESSESS – Can be subverted by loopholes, semantics, and blind spots.
EXAMPLES – The lawyer who can quote every law –and loophole- in the books, the Deminite cleric that knows every decree in the Canticles of the Demiurge
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Personality Trait
1 - I look for loopholes to exploit them.
2 - I have an encyclopedic knowledge of local laws and customs from where I grew up.
3 - I soothe myself with lists.
4 - I look for loopholes to shore them up.
5 - I hold everyone to the same standards I hold myself.
6 - I take rulebreaking personally.
7 - I know that not everyone follows the same rules I do, and that's okay.
8 - I like to make up rules on the fly in response to things that happen.
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Ideal
1 - Improvement. If the rules are unfair, we should change the rules. (Chaotic)
2 - Adherence. The rules are clear, we should follow the rules. (Lawful)
3 - Obedience. Authority comes from authority. (Lawful)
4 - Profit. The rules exist to elevate me. (Evil)
5 - Protection. The rules exist to protect the weak. (Good)
6 - Obligation. The rules exist because we all agreed to them. (Any)
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Flaw
1 - I would abandon a friend to die if the law said I should.
2 - I tend to freeze up in legal gray areas.
3 - I am always trying to game the system.
4 - I take it personally when someone around me breaks the rules.
5 - I obsessively make lists and rules.
6 - I have to dig up the local rules for everywhere I go before I make any decisions.
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