What do the Lawful Good owe the Chaotic Stupid?

[NichG]

In the first example in particular, stopping what you were doing to go save the idiots would mean trading other people's lives for theirs. So that just falls into 'leadership sometimes means hard choices'.

If you could save them without sacrifice, but you choose not to because you want them to be punished for their mistakes with death, that feels less 'good' to me. So the second example is more iffy. You aren't an exalted character though - if you honestly thought running forward would get you or others killed and might not save the idiots, I wouldn't say holding back to protect yourself makes you actively non-good. But holding back to punish them seems to.