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Nice work, I'll have to look up your other Thinking Man's threads.

That said, I think you did veer fairly heavily into NE. While every character tends to justify their decisions to themselves, the actual nature of the justification can be pretty revealing. Lawful characters are very oriented on logic and chain of effect so the justification usually runs along the lines of 'x happened in the past, thus I now do this" or "to accomplish x, I must first do y". "It sucks, but this is how it is" is also a lawful line of logic because it applies an absolute and then adheres to it.

Chaotics tend to ignore past/future thinking because they live in the moment, Can't change the past, can't control the future, so they take each situation as it comes. At their best they are spontaneous, creative, and infinitely adaptable. At worst they fail to learn from mistakes, attempt unrealistic or dangerous actions, and fail to prepare or follow through on anything. 

So for CE, I see it mostly as someone who feels that there are no rules. He does whatever he wants and doesn't even bother to justify it beyond "I felt like it". Everything in the world is his to use or destroy as he sees fit, people included. He doesn't wake up and decide to burn everything for fun  (well, usually...), he just doesn't feel any real empathy for other people and thus sees little need for restraint when anything gets in his way (or annoys him, or he gets bored, ect). Consequences rarely have much impact on his thought process. From the petty klepto misanthrope to the rampaging demon it's mostly just a matter of scale. The original story of the ring of invisibility references this as a morality tale. When a man no longer fears the consequences of his actions then his heart quickly turns to evil (or shows that it was evil all along).