BBMAN1000'S PROFILE

author=LockeZ
Yeah, seems probably true neutral to me. But I dunno. It's a lot easier to judge, to me, when the stakes are higher. Because the differences become bigger to match.

The difference between true neutral and lawful neutral is the smallest difference in the chart. But this is not by accident. It's that way because it's a real-world scenario. In real life, doing what's expected of you tends to be very reasonable and mostly unintrusive. It's never that big of a deal, and so a neutral person (and maybe even a chaotic person) is gonna do what they're told the majority of the time. So there's a LOT of overlap between true neutral and lawful neutral.

Meanwhile, in a more interesting world, your friend would be kidnapped, and the kidnappers would demand that you hand over the giant robot you're the pilot of as random to get her back, but your commanding officer would order you to stand down. And the difference between doing what you're told and not doing what you're told becomes a matter of life and death.

author=LockeZ
I came into the topic thinking that PC stood for Personal Computer, and you were wondering if the bluescreens and driver errors you were getting were considered chaotic evil or lawful evil or what. I was disappointed.

If the most "chaotic" things you've done were all either hidden to keep from hurting people's feelings or stopped because someone asked you to, you're not particularly chaotic. That shows a tendency towards respecting what other people consider acceptable, whether you want to admit it or not. Not necessarily a strong tendency though.

Generally speaking, 99% of actual real living human beings are either true neutral or lawful neutral on account of the fact that they just never do anything. It's a sliding scale though. A D&D game set in the real world where the most interesting things anyone did involved typical high school/office drama would need different cutoffs for the alignment boxes than a D&D game with battles to the death, pacts with dark forces and international politics. Everything would move a lot closer to true neutral and lawful neutral because no one's ever doing anything that's really outside of the box.

author=masterofmayhem
As anyone who has played D&D for any specific amount of time will tell you any discussions about Alignment are going to devolve into massive, earth shattering flame wars sooner or later.
So if anyone is going to do this they need to expect that inevitability and not take it personally if someone disagrees.
With that in mind, my answer is: Chaotic Neutral. Very Chaotic Neutral.