Well, except for those mentally disturbed people who claim to be doing the Lord of Evil's bidding (usually via voices in their heads) and those claim to be so above the normal rules that 'good' and 'evil' have no real meaning, most villians sincerely believe they are working on a side of 'right' and their victims deserved whatever for doing or being 'whatever' first. The fact that the rest of the world considers them monsters is irrelevant to their self and world view.
In fact, this is one of the gripes I have about the 'Dark Side of the Force' - Palpatine (and the Sith in general) actually accepted the Jedi's arguments that there WAS a 'wrong' and 'right' side to the Force when Palpatine should have been arguing that the Force had no 'sides' at all, intent was everything, and the Jedi were criminally negligent to teach otherwise.
So Luthor's general view of himself would be that he is so brilliant, rich, powerful as to be completely above the law and his brilliance in business made it obligatory for him to take over the crime element to 'give it direction and order'. And that fact that giving it direction and order made him even more rich and powerful merely proved his brilliance. (And all the 'bad' things he did were all in 'retaliation' for 'bad' things done to him - like not selling to him when he made a ridiculously low offer, etc.)
Last edited by Dandello; 06/14/17 09:23 AM.
