Does Lawful not stand for the laws of the state and not someones personal laws or feelings though?

My understanding was that "lawful" generally stood for any kind of fairly rigid rules or principles that someone uses to guide their actions. It could be laws in a legal sense, rules of an organization, a religious code, or a personal code of honor/conduct.

Yeah the traditional D&D version of lawful is sticking to a set of unbreakable rules, doesn't really matter where they come from but the fact that it's "the rules" is the important thing. Neutral are likely to follow whatever rules make sense but not be strictly bound by them and chaotic are likely to be unpredictable and ignore preset rules in favour of whatever works.
A murderer is hiding in his house. A lawful good character would get the guards and legal permissions to raid the place. A neutral good character would probably try and get help from the guards as a matter of practicality rather then due process. A chaotic good character would say "He's hiding behind that door?" *FIREBALL* "What door?"
In light of the fact I've just dissected a D&D concept, I think I should rescind my previous aslignment of chaotic good in favour of chaotic nerd

Chaotic Good as always, of course.

That chart is wrong.
Rorschach is decidedly lawful.
He may or may not be 'good' (I feel he is), but he is certainly NOT chaotic. He is bound by a strict code that he believes is right. He will not budge from that, even in the face of his own death.
With the exception of the time he fights the cop, Rorschach would damn near be able to be a Paladin. >.>

Hum, better than the EOB alignment selection, definitely :-P

That a planned alignment for Ernie?

Should be a special one, yeah. Wow in a week I'll be able to get back to thinking about ernie again

Thanks for that. I now have something to post on Scans_Daily's next Macro-Monday. :)

What nutcase labeled Indy as lawful neutral?!?
NG or CG. Sorry, he just does too many chaotic-type things to qualify as LN.

Let's have a forum game of making our own charts.

dude the pkunk were way more awesome.
but who's the lawful good guy?

Eddard Stark from Song of Ice and Fire. Thought the wolf on the background would make him easy enough to recognize, unless you've never read the books, of course.
The Pkunk don't have such a kickass theme song you know.