User blog comment:Spawny0908/Character Disscusion: John and the Honor Meter/@comment-74.97.84.60-20120120205218

He said it multiple times throughout the story. He's there to get his old gang-mates by any means necessary. He's not good or bad. He's more neutral so he can do whatever he (or the player) feels is necessary to kill the men he's sent to find and return to his family.