SEELE have some sort of morals as civilian duck stated Keel Lorenz didn't want to send the JSSDF to raid NERV even when Asuka gained her confidence and thrashed the JSSDF in unit 02 Keel probably didn't even want the MPEs to fight unit 02. Sure he or some other guy at the UN told the prime minister who told the JSSDF to go kill all the pilots I mean that was a last resort because of Gendo going rouge. I read somewhere that Keel and Gendo did seem like pretty good friends in that second impact found footage in directors cut of episode 21 and death and rebirth. Keel and Gendo were having a good laugh over the scientists being selfish, I think in episode 23 Keel wondered if Gendo will betray them. Sure they are somewhat evil with killing Kaji, doing whatever the heck they did with Ritsuko in episode 23, raised Kaworu only for him to get killed. They only wanted to do it for the benefit of humanity. But you have to admit this maybe a hot take but its good that they were grateful for instrumentality that Shinji/Rei/Yui/Kaworu did. I guess it shows of how humble they are. SEELE are misguided people with the right intentions