Shin Megami Tensei - Law and the Danger of Dogma

I’ve been thinking a lot about Shin Megami Tensei’s alignment system lately, and not for reasons I am comfortable with. Art hands us a mirror with which to reflect our world from any number of angles, and understand it better through those perspectives. We may not always like what we see, but those perspectives never leave us. They reside in the back of your mind and we catch glimpses of them in…