Who are the good guys?

[Luka]

I think the point is that if you ask the farmers, no way would they agree that Synth Food is "neutral" - they would be perceived as pure evil. It's all in the eyes of the beholder.

That's where they get the gray area, farmers think they're evil, their intentions are neutral (just profit) but they give lots of food to people (and that's good), now if they found a way to make farmers happy they would shift a LOT to the good alignment. It's more about thinking than that.

Also it all begs the question of "laws" - are the Corsairs "lawful" seeing that they adhere to Corsair Laws?

yes

And what about Vanilla freelancer? Had the Rheinland Chancellor Florian Gustav Niemann (who was under Nomad control) passed laws to benefit the Nomads, would people adhering to these laws be considered "Lawful" even though they might be working against the interests of humanity itself?

That's a bit strange there, I don't know even the mess up that happened there, so I would call of blue and orange morality until I'm able to figure out that kind of mess:wacko:

though I still don't get if nomads wanted to control or destroy