[lazide]

Was there anyone who wasn’t at least mostly evil in Herbert’s work? Haha

Even the Atreides were full on ‘the ends justify the means’, if they did nominally have ‘the good of mankind’ as the goal. Those are the most terrible dictators though.

[n4r9]

Hmmm, arguably the Fremen were not particularly evil. But I take your point.

[rsynnott]

The Fremen also embraced a certain amount of "ends justify the means" (mostly in the unseen bit between books 1 and 2); it was ultimately Paul's _fault_, but they very much went along with it.

[lazide]

I’d argue an interplanetary Jihad resulting in the deaths of billions of innocents has at least a decent smidge of evil in the prosecuting of it, regardless of who started it.