 ohoyoyoy and welcome to the channel. Today we are going to talk about what D&D alignment the SCP foundation would be. In fact I may make this into a series like a lot of other things is going to depend on how many people tune in and watch but I thought it might be fun. I've seen videos like this before for characters and we'll probably go through a couple of characters before the end of this series but right now we're going to start with the baseline. What D&D alignment would the SCP foundation be? Now I've always felt that the D&D alignments are overly simplistic when it comes down to it. Obviously you can't you can't key people into a single box out of nine and that is more true for group like the SCP foundation that is gigantic than it is for a person. However you can still if you allow for a broad range of options to fit into one of those boxes you can narrow it down until you fit them there and I think when it comes down to the SCP foundation a half of it's easy. Now a D&D alignment has and this is just for the people who don't know what I'm talking about which is probably not a lot still has a a lawful end and a chaotic end and it has a good end and an evil end and in between both of those are neutral but say chaotic good it's not somehow less good than lawful good it's just a difference in the ethics of the reasons why you're doing good so a lot of people will pretend like say chaotic evil is somehow the most evil and lawful good is somehow the most good that's not how it works it's all about uh respect to authority versus uh how much good you want to do in the world basically and and also why you're doing those things but that's neither here nor there when we talk about the SCP foundation we half of this is super easy the SCP foundation is lawful if anyone wants to argue against that they can try but I don't think there's a good way to argue against uh lawful on the between chaotic and lawful they're not neutral certainly and they're certainly not chaotic they have a set of rules it's in every article called special containment procedures uh they categorize SCPs by uh these brand new classifications that they've come up with euclid keter safe a polyon thomial and so on um the documents have a very strict structure and you're supposed to follow the rules at the scp foundation it's very very difficult I think for anyone to argue that the scp foundation isn't lawful because when it comes down to it they're organized they enforce a structure and they follow the rules period but they're not necessarily the rules of society they are a internal set of rules that they have created that they follow but they do follow those rules they've created strictly which still puts them firmly in the lawful camp now that part's easy that part's super easy but if we want to talk about whether they're good or evil then we went into a problem first of all uh whilst I can say that the scp foundation in almost every canon is lawful there is no one scp foundation on the scp wiki which is going to make it very difficult for a lot of these to be structured actually not necessarily because certain groups of interest if I decided to do them and certain characters are portrayed all one way quite a lot it's the scp foundation and a couple of others they get all over the place portrayals because they're used so much so this may be the most difficult one to actually classify but I would argue that the scp foundation is lawful neutral and I'm going to make my argument for this for this reason when we talk about good evil and neutral on the moral scale uh verse and the ethical scale we'll talk about that too what we really mean is what are you trying to accomplish what is the scp foundation trying to accomplish the scp foundation enforces its own internal rules to keep anomalies from escaping they enforce their own internal rules to preserve their own power which isn't point towards evil but they also do it to help society survive but there's both positives and negatives to this on the one hand they keep anomalies that are incredibly dangerous under wraps and keep them from killing people and that is in a large part their mission statement that is something that they do specifically for that reason but also they do it so that they can understand the anomalies better and here is the reason why I put them in the neutral category instead of good or evil if the scp foundation came across an anomaly that could cure cancer ensure no one ever went hungry again uh and just made people happy without you know drugging them up or making them into zombies or something but like just increased happiness worldwide but it was anomalous they would keep it under wraps period even if it only did one of those things they would keep it under wraps they don't care about using anomalies to improve people's lives in most canons additionally though if there is an anomaly out there that could kill a bunch of people or uh improve their own standing in the world and their own power and their own uh influence they also wouldn't release that anomaly into the world it's more important to keep the anomalies contained for the scp foundation it's not about good or evil it's about the law and that's where we come back to that that's the reason why I think lawful neutral fits them the best their focus isn't on saving people necessarily and their focus isn't on preserving their own power necessarily these are elements that do come up from time to time but the primary purpose of their existence is to enforce their own internal rule set not about good and evil for them it's only about their lawfulness and so lawful neutral fits the best now a lot of people have different interpretations of what the alignment system means that's my own uh uh conclusion that I'm coming to from reading and understanding the uh the anomaly the alignment the anomalous alignment system now the alignment system as I understand it now if you have a 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