On Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 04:30 PM, Chris Olson - SunPS wrote: >> Not from me. I respect your opinions. > > You do? Heh.... :) > >> I got a profound insight on authority after reading (believe it or >> not) >> Louis's Cooper's Time Master trilogy (excellent books, BTW). In her >> world either the gods of order ruled or the gods of chaos ruled. There >> was no balance. When chaos returns to power, instead of wiping out all >> that was order, they simply stepped back and the let people of the >> world worship who they wanted and live their lives as they saw fit. >> >> Law and chaos are insperatable(sp) and one cannot thrive without the >> other. Authority is good in so long as chaos is allowed to have its >> part. > > Authority can be good, in some ways, I'll agree. Unfortunatly, > it has the tendency to create corruption and to heighten greed. > > But I completely agree that chaos and order cannot be seperated. > Thats why you have chaos. When order starts out it is Good but then corruption and greed set in. Thats where chaos comes, into shake things up a bit. In some fantasy world chaos is equated with Evil (read: Elric, etc) but in reality, its neither. Same for order. Order taken to an extreme; an unyielding, stiff order, is just as evil.