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Message: <blockquote data-quote="VelvetViolet" data-source="post: 6182997" data-attributes="member: 6686357">That's stated to be the norm whenever a ghoul is pregnant (the in-story author was a necromancer who captured undead to experiment on them). It's where we get half-ghouls from. So we know for a fact that ghouls, which are otherwise evil, are capable of feeling affection for offspring they have after their reanimation.For me, evil implies a degree of sadism and active cruelty. If undead creatures are simply hungry and not harming living creatures out of spite, then they should qualify as neutral. If they're attacking out of hatred or insanity, chaotic neutral. If they're just defending their tombs from grave robbers, lawful neutral. If they're attacking for pleasure, then they're chaotic evil.Note that being non-evil does not mean an undead isn't dangerous or a pest like locusts or rats. It just means it isn't evil. It's the same reason why slaad aren't evil despite doing most of the same things undead do (e.g. they reproduce by laying eggs inside people). Or why formians aren't evil despite regularly genociding the inhabitants of planets they conquer.</blockquote>