3 thoughts on “Never let a man imagine”

  1. S/he may say they do evil to do good, but evil is usually much easier to do then good, less effort, as is the next little evil and the next. All too soon there isn’t any ‘good’ excuse for the evil being done, and it only goes deeper …

  2. Sadly a lot of highly ‘successful’ people achieve that success by following the idea that the ‘end justifies the means’. Their souls may be tattered and torn, but that’s nothing to the collateral damage they create on the /outside/.

  3. This is basically the entire motive of The Operative in Serenity. He knew he was a monster, knew he wasn’t going to live in the world he was creating, but was able to rationalize his monstrous acts as necessary for the good of his society. They is, to me, one of the most realistic and compelling motives a villain can have.

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