On Alignment

I was thinking about this a few hours ago, and so the thoughts aren't quite as sharp as they were as I was doing dishes after my morning coffee. This is often the case. Coffee provides me the wakeup that it does most people, but it also brings a ... idk, how else to put it. Coffee makes me kind of aggro. Fortunately I have realized this, since some years ago I would use the morning energy to write thoughts of importance to people of importance, and then later think to myself “maybe I shouldn't have done that.” Anyway, in D&D and elsewhere there is this concept of character “alignment”. I never played D&D, sad to say, but am as familiar with some of the alignments as I used to be astrology. Categorizing, fitting things into labels that I myself resent nevertheless brings me some kind of comfort I guess. I like pattern matching. I was thinking about my own character alignment, which I would either admit or claim proudly to be “chaotic good”. There are 9 alignments in this system, and…