Edited sentence: " Questions abound about what laws are to be obeyed by what lawful characters, and whether or not a society's mores or institutions should determine the lawfulness of a character, or whether their own internal code of conduct's rigidity should.Alignment as it is known in D&D can be an oversimplification, as morality is a very complicated concept that is hardly easy to categorize in real life as degrees of good and evil.Altruism, for example, would be viewed by an Objectivist as evil, while the killing of a defenseless person may be seen as a mercy in some circumstances.Many heinous acts may be committed by a well-intentioned person who believes they are doing good "in the long run