I see alignment as a holdover of wargaming. My evil army can include gnolls, kobolds *and* neutal human mercenaries. Your good army can have elves, kirin and other neutral mercs. Put ‘em on the table and start rolling dice.

But on the personal scale of RPGs it falls apart. The idea that you can scythe through entire groups of EVIL groups and remain GOOD is ethically repellent to me, and really makes the game hugely about combat.

The way I want to do it; alignment exists and nearly everyone’s neutral. Dwarves, gnolls, humans, etc are all basically okay people until they get pissed off, want something, or are culturally blind.

Evil and good are reserved for demons, unicorns, rakshasas, stuff so completely unworldly they don’t work by normal standards, and a few outliers like paladins or necromancers who choose to be really unusual (and their rewards and penalties are player or DM widgets).