> No, that's incorrect. Anything without a moral stance is Neutral. Animals, Elementals, and people who just want to live their daily lives. To be Neutral Evil is to be more than just merely apathetic towards Good and Evil, Law and Chaos, it's pulling others down to raise yourself up. And generally Neutral people don't always take the neutral approach, they perform good and evil acts - help a guy out here, be a selfish prick there.

Ah, that's definitely third edition nonsense, and contrary to the true alignment system.  Animals and elementals don't have alignments because they don't align themselves with different factions of the gods.  That's the key word there, "Align".  Such lofty ideals are the domain of men.  The alignment was lifted from Michael Moorcock's Incarnations of Immortality system and back in first edition only consisted of a Law and Chaos axis, based off of the factions of gods in his works.  Generally if you worked within the bounds of civilized society (law) or flouted them (chaos).  Half way through they added in the Good and Evil axis.  It's a faction system.  Now it's important to remember that the alignment of a character shows their ALIGNING with various factions of gods.  Characters didn't choose patron deities back in the day, one pledged allegiance to an entire faction.  If you were unlucky to be noticed by a particular god then he or she would chose you to represent them on a more personal basis.  It's a very Dodekatheonic way of looking at things.  The entire idea was backwards to the morally exempt ideals we use today.

In short, alignment isn't about expressing one's personality.  It's about what gods they serve and there's no divine faction of "I'd rather not get involved."