>>I wouldn't call them evil. Ruthless in the persuit of their goal,
>>manipulative certainly, but they were looking to make a perfect human.
>> I'm not sure that's evil. They certainly didn't see it as such -
>>they saw it as the salvation of mankind. There's -nobody- blameless
>>in any of those books, but the only person I might have seen as truly
>>evil would be Baron Harkonnen.
>
>I've only seen the Dune movies, so take this with however you
>(regrding ANYONE who has read the series) see fit... Nazis were just
>looking to make a perfect human, and they saw their pursuits as the
>salvation of mankind. I think it's all about the means used to get to
>the ends when trying to "better" a society.

Point taken, but afaik, the Bene Gesserit didn't kill off large groups of people who didn't fit in their program while doing it. They did it through a weird breeding program instead, and assumed the lesser beings would simply leave them alone.

I'll grant their definition of Human vs. Animal needs some work, though. (That could have gotten very ugly.)

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