Rorick
Scribe
Yes, you're right. What I meant was that, they see their course of action as the correct one. Things like people getting hurt being a bad thing are, after all, social constructs, and not all societies and civilisations have shared that world view.
You're also correct in that they don't necessarily have to be ignorant of their wrongs, absolutely. The point still stands though that unless you can convince the reader that the antagonist believes what they are doing is justified, by whatever skewed world view, your protagonist isn't going to be believable.
You're also correct in that they don't necessarily have to be ignorant of their wrongs, absolutely. The point still stands though that unless you can convince the reader that the antagonist believes what they are doing is justified, by whatever skewed world view, your protagonist isn't going to be believable.