Colbert: Rigid 'lawful good' characters cause significant chaos and evil
Stephen Colbert · Stephen Colbert & Reid Hoffman on how AI will impact creativity | Possible · Sep 16, 2025 · at 1:36
Comedian Stephen Colbert uses Dungeons & Dragons alignments to analyze human behavior during a conversation with Reid Hoffman.
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“Lawful good is a tunnel vision. Lawful good can cause a lot of chaos and evil by being completely unbending. So that's, I've always been very suspicious of lawful good characters.”
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