Useful Morality Subsystems (Alignment Replacements)

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With enough squinting that might work for good, but it certainly does not work for evil. Evil is not a philosophy. Evil is following selfish goals because you are selfish, not because you believe in some grand theory that promotes selfishness. Evil people would betray or abuse other evil people as readily as they would good people. And thus are probaly as vary of other evil people as good people are. Evil people seeking out the company of good ones would not be the exception, it would be the norm. Because they would expect good people to be good to them as well.

Good vs. Evil as team jerseys is stupid.

Evil is a broad swath of philosophies. Not everyone is a philosopher; some good folks just do what seems right and kind. Some evil characters just don't care about hurting others. But there are a great many stories where evil beings preach about the reasons why evil is the best path for a "worthy" person.

There is plenty of philosophy in evil. I hesitate to give even abstract examples lest real world ideologies be read into them, however, and my post be interpreted as calling some real world ideology "evil" in a manner that might violate forum rules.