Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28175157-20160624105722/@comment-28839851-20161117163412

Actually, misanthropy isn’t the same as psychopathy. Being a misanthrope means you have a general disliking and/or distrust for humans as a species, but it doesn’t necessarily mean you hate people on an individual level, whereas psychopathy means you lack empathy.

Sorry if that’s a bit off topic, but there’s a distinct difference in hating humanity as a group and hating everyone, if you get what I’m trying to say? Chara ”hating humanity” could have meant they simply rejected all the bad things humans do.

And yes, they did plan on killing a bunch of humans, we all know that, yes, that was a horrible thing they did, but we don’t really know how they felt about it. They could have seen it as a sacrifice that ”had to be done” in order to free monsterkind. They could have felt remorse. There’s just too little evidence in the game to truly know what was going on in their head.

I’m not trying to justify their actions. I’m just not sure if their intentions were "pure evil". (Please take note that I do not believe the Chara we meet at the end of a genocide run is an accurate representation of everything they were, felt and did while being alive. They’re just a ghost at this point.)