Thread:Spencerz/@comment-1820614-20140818231736/@comment-1713281-20140819013309

So the staff has discussed Odin's alignment before, even before the thread opened on the talk page, during a discussion on the alignment of cosmic beings and deities, and we came to the agreement that Odin should be listed as neutral.

The reasoning we agreed on was that cosmic beings (the One-Above-All, the Living Tribunal) and the deities of the major religions (Yahweh, Allah, the various heads of the Pantheons such as Odin or Zeus) all act in an arbitrary way. They do not act for Good or Evil in the way humans rationalize those ideas, which is why we label them as neutral.

Odin, for instance, may act for the good of Asgard, or to protect the realm, but his means of achieving those goals can include things like war or genocide. Or if you want a contemporary example, the Christian god Yahweh can be argued as wanting purity and prosperity for humanity, but the Old Testament records Yahweh sending down plagues and famine upon non-believers, or destroying entire cities of sinful people, in order to bring that purity to the Earth.

Basically, in a cosmic sense, those actions from Yahweh or Odin may be "for the better", but in a human sense, those actions are far from good. Hopefully that makes sense.