Everyone believes themselves to be in the right in one way or another, no matter what they're doing - whether it was planned or simply a good idea at the time. After all, no one does anything that they genuinely believe to be a bad idea.
Personally, I don't know if I've ever done that exactly, just because it's not the way I tend to operate. At the same time, I work closely with someone who's done many, many terrible things; he's murdered a good amount of people - slaughtered them, really - and he's tortured a few for the sake of seeing his goal through. I don't know if he even remembers what his goal is anymore; I think it's shifted more toward revenge than anything, if you want me to be honest.
To hear him talk, though...he believes that he's saving people. Protecting them from bad people, despite everything he's doing himself.
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Personally, I don't know if I've ever done that exactly, just because it's not the way I tend to operate. At the same time, I work closely with someone who's done many, many terrible things; he's murdered a good amount of people - slaughtered them, really - and he's tortured a few for the sake of seeing his goal through. I don't know if he even remembers what his goal is anymore; I think it's shifted more toward revenge than anything, if you want me to be honest.
To hear him talk, though...he believes that he's saving people. Protecting them from bad people, despite everything he's doing himself.