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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 2834627" data-attributes="member: 710">Jack is definitely altruistic. Multiple times, he has been willing to sacrifice himself. (Think of when Nina asked for a presedential pardon for killing him at a later point) . The end of the last episode was a exception, but - in that case, there weren't lives at stake. It was just a political issue and it could probably have been resolved in a lot better way (and it was). He always puts his life on the line. he also has a respect for life and dignity of sentient beings. In the current season, he was against the decision to allow the terrorists to use the Sentox nerve gas in the shopping mall. He was ordered otherwise, but ultimately, he managed to reduce the casulties. Still, the rest of his behaviour doesn't make him good. He probably would like to be a good person, but the decisions and actions he take make that impossible. If law means following a outward authority (be it laws or superiors), he definitely isn't lawful. If it would also allow a personal code, I think he might be, he is definitely uncompromising. (He wasn't willing to let the president go with his actions, as Heller wanted to. Nor was he happy with the impeachment against the president, though he could accept that, since the end result would be the same.)No real person is faced with no-win scenarios over and over again, but Jack is. That's part of the concept of the show.</blockquote>