You have to do what you have to do to make yourself able to fight your enemies. The Nobodies weren't necessarily bad-- they didn't /have/ to be, that is-- but they were doing things that hurt people anyway, and using Sora to accomplish an end that seemed nebulous and at the very best likely to have consequences that would shatter countless worlds, given that Xemnas could have cared less (I am so funny c_c;;;!!) about the state of anyone's world after he was done getting what he wanted (as nobody, heartless, and as whole person, evidently). Because they were doing bad things-- hurting people that he was being told by every authority figure he met that he needed to protect, that he wanted to protect-- he needed to be able to fight them.
Sympathizing with your enemy is a terrible way to go about winning a battle, romantic as it might seem to try and understand them; look at the way that people slander muslims and the al quaida in order to rationalize the brutal murder (bordering on genocide) of a distant people who, because they are 'not quite like us', we can treat as enemies. Countless times in history, similar generalizations have been made to smooth over the difficulty those of us who give a damn about the other side's feelings, so that we will support our own side if we need to fight to win whatever conflict is occurring. It's dirty and it's ugly and I hate it, but that's the truth; Sora was told what to believe, and despite those instances of wavering and being unsure if he was really doing the right thing, Sora chose to kill rather than be killed because of what he had been told, and because of the secrets kept from him for such a long period of time. Had he remembered what he'd learned in Castle Oblivion, he may have acted differently, but he had already chosen to give up those memories in order to regain his old ones.
Personally, I see the Real Ansem and Yen Sid as two of the most villainous characters in the game; the Disney villains I can dismiss because most of them were only really concerned with what went on within the boundaries of their own worlds, and thus could have cared less about heartless, nobodies, and the like. 'DiZ' was cold enough to use Sora, Roxas, Riku, and even King Mickey to do whatever it took to get revenge on the Nobodies of his enemies-- yeah, sure, he coated it with a pretty rationalization that he needed to right his wrongs, but even he admitted he was letting his emotions get in the way in a very negative fashion, and for all that I think he realized what a fool he'd been by the end, he was a bastard through and through. (Dunno what Tron saw in him, poor guy.)
Yen Sid, on the other hand, you only see briefly; but he was also cold, calculating-- when he told Sora of what was to come, I was unnerved at best. He already looks creepy, and I got the most terrible feeling inside that tower that what mattered to Yen Sid was results, the results he wanted to get from the occasion; not saving people, stopping evil, or justice.
(this is two long, I shall try making two comments.)
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You have to do what you have to do to make yourself able to fight your enemies. The Nobodies weren't necessarily bad-- they didn't /have/ to be, that is-- but they were doing things that hurt people anyway, and using Sora to accomplish an end that seemed nebulous and at the very best likely to have consequences that would shatter countless worlds, given that Xemnas could have cared less (I am so funny c_c;;;!!) about the state of anyone's world after he was done getting what he wanted (as nobody, heartless, and as whole person, evidently). Because they were doing bad things-- hurting people that he was being told by every authority figure he met that he needed to protect, that he wanted to protect-- he needed to be able to fight them.
Sympathizing with your enemy is a terrible way to go about winning a battle, romantic as it might seem to try and understand them; look at the way that people slander muslims and the al quaida in order to rationalize the brutal murder (bordering on genocide) of a distant people who, because they are 'not quite like us', we can treat as enemies. Countless times in history, similar generalizations have been made to smooth over the difficulty those of us who give a damn about the other side's feelings, so that we will support our own side if we need to fight to win whatever conflict is occurring. It's dirty and it's ugly and I hate it, but that's the truth; Sora was told what to believe, and despite those instances of wavering and being unsure if he was really doing the right thing, Sora chose to kill rather than be killed because of what he had been told, and because of the secrets kept from him for such a long period of time. Had he remembered what he'd learned in Castle Oblivion, he may have acted differently, but he had already chosen to give up those memories in order to regain his old ones.
Personally, I see the Real Ansem and Yen Sid as two of the most villainous characters in the game; the Disney villains I can dismiss because most of them were only really concerned with what went on within the boundaries of their own worlds, and thus could have cared less about heartless, nobodies, and the like. 'DiZ' was cold enough to use Sora, Roxas, Riku, and even King Mickey to do whatever it took to get revenge on the Nobodies of his enemies-- yeah, sure, he coated it with a pretty rationalization that he needed to right his wrongs, but even he admitted he was letting his emotions get in the way in a very negative fashion, and for all that I think he realized what a fool he'd been by the end, he was a bastard through and through. (Dunno what Tron saw in him, poor guy.)
Yen Sid, on the other hand, you only see briefly; but he was also cold, calculating-- when he told Sora of what was to come, I was unnerved at best. He already looks creepy, and I got the most terrible feeling inside that tower that what mattered to Yen Sid was results, the results he wanted to get from the occasion; not saving people, stopping evil, or justice.
(this is two long, I shall try making two comments.)