User blog comment:The.Outsider/Daniel's Part In AC3/ Templars & Assassins Argument/@comment-5088097-20120923202720/@comment-1153722-20120923203757

So, killing Templars isn't murder and it is just? Murder is murder, no way around that. Is killing someone merely because he has a different world view a just thing to do? I really don't think so. The Assassins 'force' free will just like the Templars do, and they kill those who get in their way just like the Templars do. Of course, you have crude Assassins and benevolent Templars and vice versa.

While the writers acknowledge that in Assassin's Creed II and Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, the Assassins and Templars are really black and white, but they certainly are not in Assassin's Creed and Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy.