Assignment

The issue of moral ambiguity is one we are confronted with more often than we care to realize. It is impossible for a world to be cut and dry with circumstances being either wrong or right. As seen in Unforgiven good people can do things not generally accepted in order to right a wrong. The deed of the cowboys was not a "hanging crime" but blatant anger and rage on the part of the women is what drew them to the conclsion that two men, one innocent and repentful, deserved murder. As a result of thier conclusion they see it fit to invite assassins into thier otherwise quiet town of Big Whiskey in order to restore a peace that was virtually never disrupted.
The first assassin to answer the call is English Bob, a character who we see as purley evil with no ambiguity at all. The reason for this only being the fact that we have not been introduced to him in any other sense than the demon assassin coming to claim his money. We don't know his backstory or why he needs the money but rather that he exxagerates story and has acted cowardly by shotting a man while he was down. This is relatable however to the situation of the Scofield Kid shooting the man while he was in the outhouse, yet for him we find sympathy. It is possible that had English Bob's character been more developed and round he would also be someone who evoked moral ambiguity.
The sherif, a pinnacle of justice and morality is one of the msot deplorable characters in the film. He sees himself as a great carpenter and keeper of peace however all he is capable of doing is beating people to pulp and disrupting Ned's burial rights in order to prove a point. The action of displaying Ned's corpse in front of the bar is one that adds a sort of justice to Will Munny's actions of killing him in cold blood