Creatures lacking intelligence (or those who had animal-like intelligence) or sentience were unaligned. Even though some were savage, such as sharks, such creatures were only this way due to their bestial nature and predatory instincts. Essentially, such beings could only act on instinct, and thus could not comprehend good or evil, and law or chaos. A stone golem, a construct without the ability to make moral or ethical decisions. In terms of reticence, unaligned individuals were ones who did not take a stand for either good, evil, or neutrality. Being unaligned indicated that someone may have been benign or undecided about their morality. Objects, except those which were sentient, were unaligned. As such, a know alignment spell would reveal nothing about them.