I’ve read a comic book where the “mastermind” of the story did exactly that. This was in an alternative universe where World War II lasted longer than in our world. The mastermind became chief of the third Reich (Hitler was dead at that point, I don’t remember how), devised a plan to take out all the industrial world with a biological weapon. He also chose a select few to be sheltered in bunkers while the world healed itself, as seeds to a better world.
The thing is, he despised the Nazis. Yet not only he took their methods, he amplified them: he judged the current world rotten, and set out to cleanse it. The twist is, he ensured he himself died in the process, because even as he saw no third alternative, the sin was too to great to go unpunished.
I must say that I like this reasoning, because it gets rid of a great deal of rationalizations typically made by those in power. If your cause is worth killing millions of people, but you’re not among them, then your reasoning is most certainly flawed.
I’ve read a comic book where the “mastermind” of the story did exactly that. This was in an alternative universe where World War II lasted longer than in our world. The mastermind became chief of the third Reich (Hitler was dead at that point, I don’t remember how), devised a plan to take out all the industrial world with a biological weapon. He also chose a select few to be sheltered in bunkers while the world healed itself, as seeds to a better world.
The thing is, he despised the Nazis. Yet not only he took their methods, he amplified them: he judged the current world rotten, and set out to cleanse it. The twist is, he ensured he himself died in the process, because even as he saw no third alternative, the sin was too to great to go unpunished.
I must say that I like this reasoning, because it gets rid of a great deal of rationalizations typically made by those in power. If your cause is worth killing millions of people, but you’re not among them, then your reasoning is most certainly flawed.