Yeah, I always like to play loose with alignment. It doesn’t really make sense. Treating them as hard rules just ends up with worse role play. No one in the real world is always good, or lawful, or whatever. Also, “evil” people often think they’re doing good. It’s more of just guidelines in my opinion than actual rules.

In philosophy there’s an argument about if doing good just to gain something is actually good. Someone who donates to charity to rehabilitate their image, for example. There are arguments for either side, whether the effect or the intent is more important. If there’s that discussion in philosophy than the strict alignment has to be flawed.