Can’t speak to any fictional dark lords, but the real-life equivalent seems more prone to deciding that there is an evil, which is true evil, and which is manifest upon the world in the person of those guys over there.
At least, that’s what the rhetoric pretty consistently says. Either a given dark-lordish individual is a very good liar or actually believes it, and knowing what we do about ideology and the prevalence of sociopathy I’m inclined to default to the latter.
(I wouldn’t say that Oscar Wilde and others with his interaction style particularly resemble dark lords, though.)
Can’t speak to any fictional dark lords, but the real-life equivalent seems more prone to deciding that there is an evil, which is true evil, and which is manifest upon the world in the person of those guys over there.
At least, that’s what the rhetoric pretty consistently says. Either a given dark-lordish individual is a very good liar or actually believes it, and knowing what we do about ideology and the prevalence of sociopathy I’m inclined to default to the latter.
(I wouldn’t say that Oscar Wilde and others with his interaction style particularly resemble dark lords, though.)