Board Thread:Clean up Concerns/@comment-24859393-20160622043612/@comment-26884760-20160622173739

also by definition lawful evil is different from lawful neutral.

lawful neutral upholds a law, code or society even if those concepts are corrupt or evil in some manner - like a soldier who willingly fights for a dictatorship after knowing said dictatorship is doing wicked things.. to the lawful neutral obeying the rules is worth more than going against them but they aren't doing it to be malicious, they believe society would cave-in if we all did what we wanted and justify their actions as such.

lawful evil on the other hand has no real interest in benefiting society or even legal law, what they desire is power.. they feel the best way to get such power is to create and obey strict rules, often deliberately making said rules so they benefit themselves.. they view chaos as "messy" or "dangerous".. so a lawful evil character is deliberately malicious, just on a methodical level rather than a purely sporadic (chaotic) level.. the key is "evil", here.. they are much more villainous than lawful neutrals and thus if you see a lawful entity on this wiki they really should be considered "lawful evil" by default.. especially since we've removed Judge Dredd, who is the perfect example of "Lawful Neutral".