Yep, which is what made it so good as a setting. But as a government, the Alliance clearly was responsible for some atrocities, both against individuals and entire planets.

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 4:19 PM, Kelly St. Clair <kellys@efn.org> wrote:
On 5/21/2015 4:12 PM, Craig Berry wrote:
Firefly played well with this trope. You initially know the "good guys"
were on the losing side of a war, but you don't really have any reason
to think of the winners as "bad guys" initially. So some of the more
morally questionable activities of the characters really are
questionable. Then you gradually find out just how bad the bad guys are,
and the heroes look more like heroes all the time.

 Mm... I'd say that in the Verse, there are some "good guys" and "bad guys" (some of them very much so) on both sides, and a whole lot of people in the middle, just trying to get by and/or do their jobs.  IMO, that includes most of the Alliance's armed forces, as well as the citizenry.

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