Rayl
Pain and pleasure... I've got it all.
Good point! I'm not sure where helping others becomes helping yourself. I guess it's a case of 'needs of many are greater than needs of a few'. I've heard that being said to justify that situation.
As for doing it again. If it can be done once by justifying it with 'needs of many are greater than need of a few' then maybe they would do it again with the same reason?
And then it is back to being on a slippery slope
Regardless of what you choose to do, morale or no, you'll be criticized for it. "You had the power, why didn't you do what needed to be done?" or "He's a monster that sacrifices lives for his cause on a whim"
As LysseC says, it's a complicated, nothing can ever be as simple as black or white in terms of morality.
And hell this is a discussion based on the event that you're wanting to do what's GOOD for everybody.