Is the Alliance Evil? (Firefly)

If you watch the series the Alliance has obviously been doing far more experiments than just Pax and River. The men with blue hands (who I really wish had been explained in the movie) had that device which could kill everyone in a room without so much as a sound. They hadn't been in power for all that long (6 years since the end of the war according to the Unification Day episode) and they were simply going through the steps of preventing any future uprisings. I would say that a government who erases people that question them and any of their "mistakes" is pretty evil, and the subtlety hiding that can only last so long.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by t(-_-t)

Going along with RJ's original questions, I first of all do not agree with the director's statement that a government should not tell people what to do, especially when it is in their (the people's) best interest. This is a bunch of bull crap. Seatbelt laws, drinking laws, smoking laws, public conduct laws, etc. Of course there are (and should be) limits to which these types of laws should be allowed to extend to.

Nonetheless, it is the means in which a government attempts to implement and enforce these laws which can lead to a government becoming evil.
Basically, the ends do not justify the means.

I think the society the Alliance was trying to create was more on the Orwellian side of things though. Not as extreme since the system was still young, but they were trying to do a lot more than public safety laws. A lot of things can be done in someone's best interest on paper, but in practice it has a lot of drawbacks that aren't so nice.

There's nowhere I can't reach.