Saturday, May 09, 2020

[fjojmrbw] COVID-19 alignment chart

LAWFUL GOOD: I am making ventilators and masks.

NEUTRAL GOOD: Video games and porn, alone in my mom's basement, same as always.

CHAOTIC GOOD: Let's fight this epidemic by violating civil rights!  Let's deploy the military to enforce lockdowns: shoot to kill!

LAWFUL NEUTRAL: I am making 140-proof distilled alcohol.

TRUE NEUTRAL: Different people and jurisdictions doing different actions and policies is fine, because it lets us compare their differing effects and learn things from them.

CHAOTIC NEUTRAL: Let's play politics with this epidemic.  Let's deepen and exacerbate social divisions.

LAWFUL EVIL: I am making caskets.

NEUTRAL EVIL: Beaches are still open, so the spring break trip is still on!

CHAOTIC EVIL: Do you know what would be great right now, what all the cool pandemics have had?  War.  The Black Death had the Mongol invasions; the 1918 flu had World War I.  What the world needs now is huge migrations of refugees and densely packed refugee camps, soldiers deployed to, and returning from, battlefields all over the world, and actual resource shortages to bring out the worst in desperate people and governments.  Also, this time, let's add lots of radiation poisoning (it knocks out the immune system!) to the pandemic-and-war mix, because we can.

Note: This is humor, inspired by Dungeons and Dragons.  Real people and institutions are more complicated than a 3x3 grid.

Other things considered for squares: "Profit is more important than the health of my employees."  "I have no choice but to do what I am ordered to do."  "Pandemic is a platform to spread hate."

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