I disagree. One person I called a friend for many years was like this, and from him and others, I learned the following: If you meet someone who, under lofty pretexts is abusing others, believing (or professing to believe) that the ends will both justify and make amends for the means, you have to consider that there’s very, very little chance that they are doing this for the first time. They may have been genuine once upon a time but once they realize that they can get away with abusing others as long as their reasoning sounds good enough, they will see no reason to ever stop.

And just realized this was the idea touched upon by the Isolationist Sky Elves who the younger elves had to point out ‘conjuring’ was simply stealing from someone else. Guess it’s common for some of those with power don’t always bother thinking of the consequences to others.