Have you ever noticed how many of the fictional portrayals of people doing wrong, immoral or evil things, are justifying what they do as if it's the "right" thing to do? They are harming others, but they say it's for the "greater good" according to their usually deluded idea of what the "good" is. They see themselves as the "hero", and sometimes as a "savior" of sorts who must do what others are unwilling to do -- which is usually to harm innocents and justify it as "necessary".
They are very confused and lost in their self-delusion. A famous character that comes to mind is Darth Vader or Anakin Skywalker. He justified his actions to murder innocents in order to create an empire of total control for peace with no more conflict. What a deluded idiot he was, led by fear to create immorality.
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I think it's not just a fictional reality, but has occurred in a lot of human history. People who have done egregious acts are often viewed as being purely evil because we say they knowingly do evil. That may be the case. It can also be that they don't think of what they are doing as evil. Maybe they are thinking of themselves as the hero in their own story.
Hitler, Stalin, Alexander the Great, and many other who killed innocent people in their quest for some allegedly "higher" (but really a corrupted false) ideal have likely seen themselves as the hero in their actions. These people -- and many more in history -- all tried to create a new order of life and living for humanity. One could reduce the quest or goal to the desire for "unity" at all costs.
In addition to the evil goals of characters in Star Wars to create "unity" through violence and immorality, I'm reminded of the movie Hero that portrays this motive as well. Jet Li is the "Nameless" martial arts expert whose plan is to depose the King of Qin that is conquering and destroying the lives of many. He secretly plans this by killing three other martial arts warriors that are fighting against the king, gaining favor of the king in order to be summoned and gain access to kill the king.
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But when he reaches 10 paces from the king, close enough for his kill move and his own death after, the king tells him he already figured out his plan. The king then explains and justifies all his murdering through the ideal of unifying all of the lands under one ruler, which requires subjugating them to one authority, himself. Nameless is persuaded by the argument, and lets himself be killed rather than stop the king.
This is a great movie to support government, statism and centralized authority and influence the mind's of he viewer of how great the idea of "unity" through violence, domination and murder is.
These fictional characters and the characters in our history who have ordered or carried out immoral actions against others, likely all viewed and thought of themselves as "good" and "right", subjectively in their own minds, but not as to what is objectively right, good, true and moral actions. They weren't doing good, they weren't heroes, but they saw themselves that way instead of see themselves as the villain.
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