You might have a point looking at the state of society and the legality of that action in their country. But without any of that information it looks like their just serving their and their own's best interest which would fall under the neutral category in DnD. Thus we see why alignment charts suck tarrasque balls.

People don't seem to understand that chaos is opposed to law, and is unrelated to the evilness of the character - that chaotic evil is no more evil than lawful evil