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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ruleslawyer" data-source="post: 3292149" data-attributes="member: 1757">Except that, the Empire being a tyranny and all, "no questions asked" is more non-Lawful than non-Good.If we're actually going to analyze specific dialogue elements right now, it's worth noting that the Empire is pretty unambiguously labeled "evil" from the start. Luke gives Ben an "of course I hate it" answer about the Empire, and the opening narrative establishes the same thing. Just because Han bends the law doesn't mean he *expects* the consequences of his actions to be anything other than non-evil. This does, however, illustrate a problem in approaching alignment: Namely, the tension between the omission of evil acts and the commission of good acts. I tend to go with the more generous approach. Han doesn't do anything particularly bad, ever, in the movies, unles it's milking Luke and Ben for a pot of money. (Granted, if you shift around the moral universe of the films to assume that Luke and Ben easily could be a pair of crazed serial killers escaping their crimes, the story might be different. But I don't think that's a fair hypothetical conclusion to raise.) Moreover, where the choice is between the not-so-good and the good, he generally chooses the good.</blockquote>