Do you reckon that the protagonists of Lost are savages?

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I started watching this show in the middle of season 2 when they showed the episode of the other 48 days of the tail end passengers. This episode was ridden with themes of mistrust and paranoia - they even threatened the "good guys" of Jin, Michael and Sawyer. Now it is the end of season 3 and in fact - it seems as if it is the end of the whole series as they have already been rescued off the island. Looking back at this season - Sawyer has killed three people in cold blood - two on the island. Locke killed that girl with the satellite phone. They killed ten of "the others" in the last episode. a few episodes before the season finale Hurley mentioned how Charlie had killed the first of "the others" - Ethan - and buried him in the sand. I know that Ben and the others massacred all of the previous Dharma people using nerve gas but in terms of the survivors from the plane crash - they haven't really killed any of them. I think that the producers and writers of lost have really made a good show with some really clever and original (more realistic) themes - showing that these protagonists (which traditionally would be known as the "good guys") really are not one sided "heroes" and in fact they can even be described as savages who have dark pasts. Many of these survivors are tested by the island to show us what kind of human beings they are - Michael shot and killed two of his people so that he and his son can get off the island.