Talk:Hans/@comment-25137954-20150914072715/@comment-1416077-20150914144644

The Stabbingtons are NOT "good" they are bad, later (arguably) neutral.

Murder is worse than slavery: although slavery is an affront to human free will, there are different forms of slavery (particularly in early 19th century Europe), not all of them involving back-breaking work or other "unpleasantness"; furthermore, laws regarding slavery at the time allowed the slave to buy her way out of slavery. Heck, there were more laws protecting slaves that there were protecting free workers!

On the other hand, dead is dead. There is no varied degrees of unpleasantness of being dead, and you can't buy your way back to life.

Hans is a cold, calculating liar, whose plan from the beginning was to marry a high-ranking royal, then murder his way to the throne. Given every chance to reconsider, he still took every opportunity to do harm for his own benefit.

Note also his cruelty: he told Anna his plan solely to make her suffer before dying. This puts him firmly into the "bad" category.