Quote Originally Posted by timeshifter
Even a fool will look wise if he keeps his mouth shut.
exactly.

ah yes, neutral alignment; to find out why neutral alignment isn't really neutral at all, we first need to revisit society constructed around the concept of bad alignment.

if a society is based on bad alignment then it will have cruelty and injustice built into it so that people with sadistic tendencies can get their chemical rewards. if everyone in such a society was bad, then they would be feasting on their own, that is undertaking acts of cruelty on each other. Society would have to be built so that anyone could potentially feast on another. Even though this means that anyone in such a society could potentially be victimized at any time, they would allow it because the thought of not being able to indulge their sadistic tendencies would be unthinkable.

To summarise in a bad society there would be a huge risk of anyone being subjected to injustice and tortured in such a society, and nobody would be immune from that risk, the risk only being offset by virtue of sadistic tendencies being satisfied.

Can you see why neutral isn't really neutral yet TimeShifter?