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Emphasizing is a much lower bar than thinking they’re justified, though. I emphasize with Lex Luthor, but don’t actually think he’s right.
As opposed to, say, Gaston in Beauty and the Beast, who was totally correct that something needed to be done about the evil mutated aristocrat kidnapping and imprisoning people from the village.
he was right, he was also an asshole though.
those ain't mutually exclusive
Absolutely. Whether someone is an asshole is a third question, alongside whether they’re justified and whether I can emphasize with them. Each answer can be very different.
His motivation wasn't to free the townspeople from a horrible autocratic aristocrat, it was to prove to the townspeople that he was a worthwhile individual by indiscriminately killing something.
And sexually harass Belle.