User blog comment:Queen Misery/New Standards/@comment-24588369-20150817153239/@comment-2059440-20160301022651

if the law itself is corrupt or oppressive within the setting or the being uses "law" simply to better their own goals then they are not good characters.. a corrupt police officer or supporter of a facist regime is technically on the "side of law" but are in reality only using that guise to further a very unlawful cause.. the brutality of others.

Compare that to, say, an officer that does bad things but in the process betters their society and you see the difference..

common sense overrides many things, you can tell if a character is truly working for the "greater good" (good is not nice) or simply using it as an excuse to cause havoc.