I would say it depends greatly on the setting. By default, necromancy (as in animate dead) is undeniably evil, you're channeling negative energy to create a foul mockery of life that will attempt to kill anyone it can. Now if you're a "necromancer" that simply specializes in that school of magic rather than the common connotation of the word, it is entirely reasonable for you to be good. Alternately, if the world is one where necromancy isn't inherently evil, it would also be reasonable to be a good necromancer.
As for law v chaos, do you tend to plan ahead or react to circumstances?
Necromancy is a school of magic. It's neither evil nor good. It's does things. Revivify, Raise Dead, Resurrection and True Resurrection are all necromantic. Are they evil acts as well? So many spells exist only to kill and would likely cause immense suffering and pain. Are they too not evil by default? How is evokation not a morally dubious school of magic? What's the rule for which spells are evil and which are good? And if you can't draw a line that can be rationally applied to spells as a metric of innate goodness or evilness, are you pronouncements of good and evil purely arbitrary?
I addressed that in the post you quoted. In the default setting animate dead is evil because it channels negative energy to create an evil creature. This is also the defining feature of someone that people would refer to (in character) as a necromancer. If you are instead a specialist in the necromancy school who doesn't cast spells that create undead or if the spells work differently in the world, then it is reasonable to be a good necromancer.
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I addressed that in the post you quoted. In the default setting animate dead is evil because it channels negative energy to create an evil creature. This is also the defining feature of someone that people would refer to (in character) as a necromancer. If you are instead a specialist in the necromancy school who doesn't cast spells that create undead or if the spells work differently in the world, then it is reasonable to be a good necromancer.