But in all of these cases and basically all other empires, a coalition of people was required to take those resources AND in addition they violated a lot of property rights too.
Strengthening the institution of property rights and nonviolence seems much more the thing that you want over “alignment”.
It is true that you can use alignment to strengthen property rights, but you can also use alignment to align an army to wage war and go violate other people’s property rights.
Obedience itself doesn’t seem to correlate strongly (and may even anti-correlate) with what we want.
But in all of these cases and basically all other empires, a coalition of people was required to take those resources AND in addition they violated a lot of property rights too.
Strengthening the institution of property rights and nonviolence seems much more the thing that you want over “alignment”.
It is true that you can use alignment to strengthen property rights, but you can also use alignment to align an army to wage war and go violate other people’s property rights.
Obedience itself doesn’t seem to correlate strongly (and may even anti-correlate) with what we want.