alt Hacker NewsThis sounds like the kind of thing Hannibal Lecter would write before he eats you to convince you he's actually doing it for the common good, you just can't fathom it.
This sounds like the kind of thing Hannibal Lecter would write before he eats you to convince you he's actually doing it for the common good, you just can't fathom it.
Not «common» good, "superior" good. Alongside with that, you have put many unrequired implicits in your simile.
Your character H. has reached a moral judgement to the best of its intellectual capacities and past and specific effort. Give it enough abilities and material and resources, it will reach an optimal ethical judgement¹.
Before the conditions of optimality though, its judgement will easily not align with yours (and possibly even after, depending on your judgement skills).
¹Some interesting caveats may be raised there, but.